List of diplomatic missions of Russia

Russian diplomatic missions

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant interests in Eastern Europe, the Near East and especially in the former states of the Soviet Union. It also has extensive ties to countries in the developing world, a legacy of Cold War diplomatic efforts to extend the Soviet Union's influence in Africa and Asia which are now more important for commercial reasons.

Russia established several consulates in the United States and Canada to cater to Russian immigrants. In 1917, the Tsarist government vanished, with a number of consuls who maintained tsarist loyalties establishing the "Council of Ambassadors" (Russian: Совещания послов), through which they worked as embassies without a government.[1][2] Among these were consuls in seven U.S. cities and three Canadian cities, receiving financing from the U.S. government. The consuls stopped their services in the late 1920s; the U.S. government seized the records of the consulates. The seizure started a long dispute. The National Archives and Records Administration received the documents in 1949. In 1980 the U.S. government loaned the documents of the Canadian consulates to the Library and Archives Canada. On 31 January 1990 the U.S. returned the documents to the Soviet Union and kept the microfilms as evidence.[3]

After 1992, due to financial reasons,[4] embassies in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Maseru (Lesotho), Mogadishu (Somalia), Niamey (Niger), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) were closed. In 1995 the embassy in Paramaribo (Suriname) also suspended operations.[clarification needed]

The Russian Federation has no diplomatic relations with Bhutan and Solomon Islands. Since Georgia and Russia severed diplomatic relations in 2008, the Swiss embassy in Tbilisi hosts a Russian interests section.[citation needed]

In February 2022, Micronesia and Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Russia.

However, despite any obstacles led by West countries and its allies, Russia has been agreed towards new chancery or missions abroad, including Burkina Faso, South Sudan, and Equatorial Guinea agreed in July 2023, and Maldives in March 2024. Several missions in overseas has been inaugurate such as Embassy in Burkina Faso in December 2023, and General Consulate in Maldives in March 2024.

Current missions

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Africa

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Algeria Algiers Embassy
Annaba Consulate General
 Angola Luanda Embassy
Countries:
 Benin Cotonou Embassy
Countries:
 Botswana Gaborone Embassy
 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Embassy
 Burundi Bujumbura Embassy
 Cameroon Yaoundé Embassy
Countries:
 Cape Verde Praia Embassy
 Central African Republic Bangui Embassy
 Chad N'Djamena Embassy
 Congo-Brazzaville Brazzaville Embassy
 Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa Embassy
 Djibouti Djibouti Embassy
Countries:
 Egypt Cairo Embassy
Alexandria Consulate General
 Eritrea Asmara Embassy
 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy
 Gabon Libreville Embassy
 Ghana Accra Embassy
Countries:
 Guinea Conakry Embassy
Countries:
 Guinea-Bissau Bissau Embassy
 Ivory Coast Abidjan Embassy
 Kenya Nairobi Embassy
 Libya Tripoli Embassy
Benghazi Consulate General
 Madagascar Antananarivo Embassy
Countries:
 Mali Bamako Embassy
Countries:
 Mauritania Nouakchott Embassy
 Mauritius Port Louis Embassy
 Mozambique Maputo Embassy
Countries:
 Morocco Rabat Embassy
Casablanca Consulate General
 Namibia Windhoek Embassy
 Nigeria Abuja Embassy
Lagos Consulate General
 Rwanda Kigali Embassy
 Senegal Dakar Embassy
 Seychelles Victoria Consular Agency
 South Africa Pretoria Embassy
Countries:
Cape Town Consulate General
 Sudan Khartoum Embassy
 Tanzania Dar es Salaam Embassy
 Tunisia Tunis Embassy
 Uganda Kampala Embassy
Countries:
 Zambia Lusaka Embassy
 Zimbabwe Harare Embassy
Countries:

Americas

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy
 Bolivia La Paz Embassy
 Brazil Brasília Embassy
Countries:
Rio de Janeiro Consulate General
São Paulo Consulate General
 Canada Ottawa Embassy
Montreal Consulate General
Toronto Consulate General
 Chile Santiago Embassy
 Colombia Bogotá Embassy
 Costa Rica San José Embassy
 Cuba Havana Embassy
Countries:
Santiago de Cuba Consulate General
 Ecuador Quito Embassy
 Guatemala Guatemala City Embassy
 Guyana Georgetown Embassy
Countries:
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 Jamaica Kingston Embassy
Countries:
 Mexico Mexico City Embassy
Countries:
 Nicaragua Managua Embassy
Countries:
 Panama Panama City Embassy
 Paraguay Asunción Embassy
 Peru Lima Embassy
 United States Washington, D.C. Embassy
International Organizations:
New York Consulate General
Houston Consulate General
 Uruguay Montevideo Embassy
 Venezuela Caracas Embassy

Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Abkhazia Sukhumi Embassy
 Afghanistan Kabul Embassy
Mazar-i-Sharif Consulate General
 Armenia Yerevan Embassy
Gyumri Consulate General
 Azerbaijan Baku Embassy
 Bahrain Manama Embassy
 Bangladesh Dhaka Embassy
 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Embassy
 Cambodia Phnom Penh Embassy
 China Beijing Embassy
Guangzhou Consulate General
Shanghai Consulate General
Shenyang Consulate General
Harbin Consulate General
Hong Kong Consulate General
 Georgia Tbilisi Interests Section in Swiss Embassy
 India New Delhi Embassy
Mumbai Consulate General
Chennai Consulate General
Hyderabad Consulate General
Kolkata Consulate General
 Indonesia Jakarta Embassy
Countries:
 Iran Tehran Embassy
Isfahan Consulate General
Erbil Consulate General
 Iraq Baghdad Embassy
Erbil Consulate General
 Israel Tel Aviv Embassy
Haifa Consulate General
 Japan Tokyo Embassy
Osaka Consulate General
Sapporo Consulate General
Hakodate Consular Office
 Jordan Amman Embassy
 Kazakhstan Astana Embassy
Almaty Consulate General
Oral Consulate
 Kuwait Kuwait City Embassy
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Embassy
 Laos Vientiane Embassy
 Lebanon Beirut Embassy
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Embassy
 Maldives Malé General Consulate
 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Embassy
Darkhan Consulate General
Erdenet Consulate General
 Myanmar Yangon Embassy
   Nepal Kathmandu Embassy
 North Korea Pyongyang Embassy
Chongjin Consulate General
 Oman Muscat Embassy
 Pakistan Islamabad Embassy
Karachi Consulate General
 Palestine Ramallah Embassy
 Philippines Manila Embassy
Countries:
Cebu City Consular Agency
 Qatar Doha Embassy
 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy
Jeddah Consulate General
 Singapore Singapore Embassy
 South Korea Seoul Embassy
Busan Consulate General
 South Ossetia Tskhinvali Embassy
 Sri Lanka Colombo Embassy
Countries:
 [6][7]
 Syria Damascus Embassy
 Taiwan Taipei Representative Office [8]
 Tajikistan Dushanbe Embassy
Khujand Consulate General
 Thailand Bangkok Embassy [9][10]
Phuket Consulate General
 Turkey Ankara Embassy
Istanbul Consulate General
Antalya Consulate General
Trabzon Consulate General
 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Embassy
Türkmenbaşy Consulate
 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy
Dubai Consulate General
 Uzbekistan Tashkent Embassy
 Vietnam Hanoi Embassy
Danang Consulate General
Ho Chi Minh City Consulate General

Europe

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Albania Tirana Embassy
 Austria Vienna Embassy
Salzburg Consulate General
 Belarus Minsk Embassy
Brest Consulate General
 Belgium Brussels Embassy
Antwerp Consulate General
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Embassy
 Bulgaria Sofia Embassy
Rousse Consulate General
Varna Consulate General
 Czech Republic Prague Embassy
Brno Consulate General
Karlovy Vary Consulate General
 Croatia Zagreb Embassy
 Cyprus Nicosia Embassy
 Denmark Copenhagen Embassy
 Estonia Tallinn Embassy
 Finland Helsinki Embassy
Lappeenranta Consular Department
Mariehamn Consulate
 France Paris Embassy
Marseille Consulate General
Countries:
Strasbourg Consulate General
Villefranche-sur-Mer Consular Agency
 Germany Berlin Embassy
Bonn Consulate General
Frankfurt Consulate General
Hamburg Consulate General
Munich Consulate General
 Greece Athens Embassy
Thessaloniki Consulate General
 Holy See Rome
(Vatican City) 		Embassy
Countries:
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 Hungary Budapest Embassy
Debrecen Consulate General
 Iceland Reykjavík Embassy
 Ireland Dublin Embassy
 Italy Rome Embassy
Countries:
Genoa Consulate General
Milan Consulate General
Palermo Consulate General
 Kosovo Pristina Liaison office [11]
 Latvia Riga Embassy
 Lithuania Vilnius Embassy
 Luxembourg Luxembourg Embassy
 Malta Valletta Embassy
 Moldova Chișinău Embassy
Tiraspol Consulate General de facto consulate to Transnistria
 Montenegro Podgorica Embassy
 Netherlands The Hague Embassy
 North Macedonia Skopje Embassy
Bitola Consulate General
 Norway Oslo Embassy
Barentsburg Consulate General
Kirkenes Consulate General
 Poland Warsaw Embassy
Kraków Consulate General
Poznań Consulate General
Gdańsk Consulate General
 Portugal Lisbon Embassy
 Romania Bucharest Embassy
Constanța Consulate General
 Serbia Belgrade Embassy
 Slovakia Bratislava Embassy
 Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy
 Spain Madrid Embassy
Countries:
Barcelona Consulate General
 Sweden Stockholm Embassy
Gothenburg Consulate General
  Switzerland Bern Embassy
Countries:
International Organizations:
Geneva Consular agency
 United Kingdom London Embassy
Edinburgh Consulate General

Oceania

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Australia Canberra Embassy
Countries:
Sydney Consulate General
 New Zealand Wellington Embassy
Countries:

International organizations

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Organization Host city Host country Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok Thailand Permanent Mission
 European Union Brussels Belgium Permanent Mission
Council of Europe Strasbourg France Permanent Mission
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The Hague Netherlands Permanent Mission
 Commonwealth of Independent States Brussels Belgium Delegation
 United Nations New York City United States Permanent Mission
International Organizations:
Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission
Vienna Austria Permanent Mission
 UNESCO Paris France Permanent Mission

Embassies to open

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Closed missions

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Africa

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
 Equatorial Guinea Malabo Embassy 1992 [4]
 Lesotho Maseru Embassy 1992 [4]
 Liberia Monrovia Embassy 1992 [4]
 Niger Niamey Embassy 1992 [4]
 São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé Embassy 1992 [4]
 Sierra Leone Freetown Embassy 1992 [4]
 Somalia Mogadishu Embassy 1992 [4]
 Togo Lomé Embassy 1992 [4]

Americas

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
 Suriname Paramaribo Embassy 1995
 United States Seattle Consulate-General 2018 [14]
San Francisco Consulate-General 2017

Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Closing date Ref.
 Ottoman Empire Jerusalem Consulate-General 1914 [15]
 Empire of Japan Kobe Consulate-General 1938 [16]
Otaru Vice-Consulate 1938 [17]

Oceania

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Host country Host city Mission Closing date Ref.
 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Embassy 1992

Europe

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
 Estonia Narva Consulate General 2022 [18]
Tartu Consular Section
 Georgia Tbilisi Embassy 2008
 Latvia Daugavpils Consulate General 2022 [19][20]
Liepāja Consulate General
 Ukraine Kyiv Embassy 2022

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Russian Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.

References

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  1. ^ Kocho-Williams, Alastair (2020-08-19). ""Embassy without Government": The Council of Ambassadors and the Persistence of Tsarist Diplomacy after the Russian Revolution". Diplomacy & Statecraft. 31 (3): 469–486. doi:10.1080/09592296.2020.1782674. S2CID 221192513.
  2. ^ Kononova, Margarita (2017). "Russian Diplomacy in Emigration: Challenging the October Revolution". Russian International Affairs Council. RIAC Project.
  3. ^ Archives.gov
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Alexandr V. Kozemjakin; Roger E. Kanet (1 March 1995). "Russian policy toward sub-Saharan Africa: Disengagement or cooperation". Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Home - the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana".
  6. ^ Embassy in Sri Lanka is perform representative functions in combination.
  7. ^ Соглашение между Правительством Российской Федерации и Правительством Мальдивской Республики об учреждении Генерального консульства Российской Федерации в г. Мале. mid.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  8. ^ Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation
  9. ^ Consulate of Russia in Phuket, Thailand
  10. ^ Генеральное консульство России в Пхукете. phuket.mid.ru (in Russian). Генеральное консульство Российской Федерации в г. Пхукете. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Ambasadat dhe Misionet Diplomatike në Kosovë - ARKS". 19 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Africa-Russia Summit: Russia to open Embassies in Equatorial Guinea & Burkina Faso". 29 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Russian Embassy to open in South Sudan soon".
  14. ^ "Trump orders expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, closure of Seattle consulate". CBS News. 26 March 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  15. ^ Российское генеральное Императорское консульство в Иерусалиме
  16. ^ История Генконсульства в Осаке
  17. ^ Главная страница » Генконсульство » История Генконсульства » г. ОТАРУ
  18. ^ "Estonia expels 14 consular staff of Russia and closes Russia's consulate general in Narva and Tartu office | Välisministeerium". vm.ee. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
  19. ^ "Латвия закроет два российских консульства и вышлет 13 дипломатов" (in Russian). RIA. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  20. ^ 16:49, 5 апреля 2022 (5 April 2022). "Латвия закрывает генконсульства России и выдворит их сотрудников" (in Russian). Interfax.ru. Retrieved 16 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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