Andrey Kelin has served in various diplomatic roles since the 1970s, and has been the incumbent Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom since November 2019.
11 Facts About Andrey Kelin
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Andrey Kelin has held various posts in embassies in Europe, and took part in arms-limitation talks and then in the ministry's department of Pan-European Cooperation.
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Andrey Kelin was part of the Soviet delegation to the Geneva talks in the early 1980s, ultimately resulting in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
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Andrey Kelin had a second overseas posting between 1990 and 1995 at the Soviet, and later Russian, embassy in Belgium.
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Between 1995 and 1998, Andrey Kelin served as a head of department at the Department of Pan-European Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then from 1998 to 2003 he was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO.
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In 2003, Andrey Kelin became Deputy Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation, and then from September 2005 served as Director of the Fourth Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries.
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Andrey Kelin was part of the Russian delegation to the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in the Transcaucasus.
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Andrey Kelin was recalled on 5 August 2015, and on 21 September 2015 he was appointed Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation.
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On 5 November 2019, Andrey Kelin was appointed Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom.
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On 20 June 2022, Andrey Kelin received a personal ban on entering the Westminster Parliamentary Estate.
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Andrey Kelin holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to which he was appointed on 14 November 2012.