Andrei Kozyrev

Andrei Kozyrev

Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev (Russian: Андре́й Влади́мирович Ко́зырев; born 27 March 1951) is a Russian politician who served as the former and the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation under President Boris Yeltsin, in office for the Russian SFSR from October 1990 and, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, from 1992 until January 1996 for Russia. In his position, he was credited with developing Russia's foreign policy immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union, although many in Russia have criticized him for being weak and not assertive enough in defending Russian interests in the face of NATO in places such as Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ba'athist Iraq. He was the Russian representative during the signing of the Oslo I Accord, for which he received criticism from Russian nationalist politicians and parties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Kozyrev has received more than 254,603 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Andrei Kozyrev is the 10,147th most popular politician (up from 13,070th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 581st in 2019) and the 87th most popular Belgian Politician.