Putin awarded Zakharova new diplomatic rank
MOSCOW, 26 Dec — RIA Novosti. Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the first class, is stated in the decree of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the text of which is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
“To assign… to the diplomatic ranks of Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1 class… Zakharova Maria Vladimirovna — the Director of the Department of information and press of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation”, — reported in the document.
To do this, Zakharova was the rank of extraordinary and Plenipotentiary envoy of the second class.
The same decree the rank of Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary assigned to the Ambassador-at-large of the Russian foreign Ministry Vladimir Barbin, the Russian Ambassador to Iran Levan Djagaryan, Deputy Minister of energy Yuri Senturin, and the Ambassador of Russia in Qatar Nurmahmad Holovu.