Valentin Falin

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Valentin Falin
Baлeнтин Фaлин
In office
6 March 1986 – 25 April 1989
Personal details
Born
Valentin Mikhailovich Falin

(1926-04-03)3 April 1926
Died22 February 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 91)
Moscow, Russia
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1951–1991)

Valentin Mikhailovich Falin (Russian: Baлeнтин Mиxaйлoвич Фaлин; 3 April 1926 – 22 February 2018[1]) was a Soviet diplomat and politician.

Early life

Falin was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1950.

Career

From 1951 to 1958, he worked at the USSR Foreign Ministry.

Federal Republic of Germany. In 1978, he was appointed First Deputy Chief of the International Information Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU,[3] a post he left in January 1983 for personal reasons.[4] From 1982 to 1986 he was a political observer, then editor and chief editor in the newspaper Izvestia
.

On 10 March 1986 Falin was elected by the Council of Sponsors of the

the failed 1991 coup
against Mikhail Gorbachev, he left government service.

From 1992 to 2000, he worked at Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy of Hamburg University (Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg) in Germany. He returned to Russia in 2000 and lived in Moscow.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Felipe Turover Chudínov, who is a former senior officer in the foreign intellegence directorate of the KGB and his father Genrikh Yakovlevich Turover was a translator to Leonid Brezhnev, worked closely with the Party Technology division of the International Department and allegedly was responsible for financial schemes supporting Soviet friendly firms through the Lugano based Swiss bank Banco del Gottardo [de; it], which had been the overseas branch of Banco Ambrosiano, for clandestine equipment transfers to the Soviet Union.[7] The Zurich branch of the Banco del Gottardo or Gotthard-Bank or Banca del Gottardo was also used. Giulio Andreotti was a friend of Felipe Turover's father Genrikh Yakovlevich Turover (also transliterated as Heinrich Thurover) (Russian: Генрих Яковлевич Туровер; born 7 May 1931) who, in 1962, founded and headed the Romance language department at Moscow State Linguistic University, was known as interprète chevronné, taught languages at the KGB Red Banner Academy, authored Spanish-Russian dictionaries and textbooks and, during the Soviet period, was a Spanish and French translation expert for the USSR as an interpreter at the most important negotiations for Soviet leaders.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ Gazeta.ru, 22 февраля 2018. Умер Валентин Фалин
  2. ^ Валентин Фалин возглавил экспертный совет Международного комитета Интернациональной России — ИА REGNUM
  3. ^ Lewytzkyj B. (Ed) (1984) Who's Who In The Soviet Union. Munich: K.G. Saur.
  4. ^ .
  5. ^ "Valentin Falin Elected Chairman of APN Board". Soviet Life (356): 29. May 1986.
  6. ^ a b Belton 2020, p. 52.
  7. ^ a b Belton 2020, p. 92-95.
  8. ^ Хоботов, Егор (Khobotov, Egor) (14 March 2000). "Могущество Филиппа Туровера основано на отцовских связях: Дополнение к биографии Филиппа Туровера" [The power of Philip Turover based on paternal ties: Addition to Philip's biography Turovera]. Компромат.Ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 April 2000. Retrieved 14 December 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Генрих Туровер" [Heinrich Thurover]. livelib.ru (in Russian). 14 December 2023. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

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