New Delhi: More than six months after Alexander Kadakin, Russia’s envoy to India, passed away, career diplomat Nikolay Kudashev has been appointed as Russia’s ambassador to India.
Mr Kudashev, a specialist in South East Asia, is currently the deputy director general secretariat in Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs.
“President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin by the executive order appointed Nikolay Kudashev as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India,” the Russian embassy said.
Kadakin, a fluent Hindi-speaking career diplomat considered a great friend of India, had passed away on January 26 at a hospital in Delhi after a brief illness. He was 67. Mr Kudashev was the Russian ambassador to Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in 2014-2015.
