Russia announces new Ambassador to Cyprus

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the appointment of Vyacheslav Scumskiy to the post of Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Cyprus.

The decree was signed by President Dmitri Mendeleev on September 11 and Scumskiy is expected to arrive in Cyprus by the end of September and fully assume his duties over the coming weeks.

Scumskiy, 58, has been a career diplomat since 1972. He has served from various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Soviet and Russian embassies in Somalia, Zambia and the USA, at the Africa Division of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Ambassador to Namibia, and recently as Director of the 1st Division of Post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States.