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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin as Russia's new ambassador to Türkiye, according to a decree published on Russia's official legal information portal.
The decree relieved Vershinin of his duties as deputy foreign minister "in connection with transfer to other work" and appointed him as "Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Türkiye."
In a separate decree, Putin appointed Russia's Cairo Ambassador Georgiy Borisenko as the new deputy foreign minister, filling the vacancy left by Vershinin's reassignment.
The appointment comes after Putin signed a decree last year reassigning former Ankara Ambassador Alexey Yerhov to serve as ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Born in 1954, Sergey Vershinin graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1976 and from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry in 1991.
Vershinin has worked in the Russian Foreign Ministry system since 1976, serving in various positions at Russian missions in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
He served as Russia's ambassador to Algeria from 1999 to 2003. From 2011, he held the position of special representative of the Russian foreign minister for Middle East settlement issues.
Vershinin was appointed deputy foreign minister in 2018 and has held the position since then. He speaks Arabic, French and English.
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