MOSCOW, October 13 The Russian Foreign Ministry reported on the Telegram channel about the sudden death of the director of the department of pan-European cooperation of the ministry.
“The leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with deep regret report that on October 12, 2023, at the age of 62, the Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Nikolai Sergeevich Kobrinets died suddenly,” it says. in a message from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Kobrinets was born on December 21, 1961 in Moscow. In 1984 he graduated from MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various positions in the Central Office and abroad. In 2006-2011 — Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union, in 2011-2012 — Deputy Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation. From February 2012 to October 2019, he served as Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Government of the Russian Federation. Since 2019, he has headed the Department of Pan-European Cooperation.
Kobrinets was awarded the medal of the Order «For Services to the Fatherland» II degree, the Order of Friendship, and the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation.
The message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that “a talented diplomat, an experienced leader and a sympathetic mentor, who devoted his entire working life to protecting the foreign policy interests of the Motherland, has left.”