Andrey Kozyrev
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Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev (Андре́й Влади́мирович Ко́зырев) (born March 27 1951) was the foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from October 1990 until his dismissal in January 1996.
The son of a Soviet diplomat, he was born in Brussels, Belgium.
Andrey Kozyrev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He joined the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968, and held various posts including the Head of the Department of International Organizations.
After the failed Soviet coup attempt of 1991, he found himself in Yeltsin's team of young reformers, which included Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, and shared their Western liberal-democratic ideals.
Kozyrev was criticized by the Russian State Duma for capitulating to the West which led to Russia's loss of the position of "superpower", as well as for the alleged failure to support the Serbs in Bosnia.
Was succeeded by Yevgeny Primakov.
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