
Putin Appoints New Ambassador to Azerbaijan

On June 14, Russia's President Vladimir Putin appointed Mikhail Yevdokimov as the new Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
By another presidential decree, Mikhail Bocharnikov, who has headed the embassy since the end of May 2018, was released from the post of head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Baku.
Notably, since November 2011, Mikhail Yevdokimov has been the director of the First Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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