A farewell ceremony for diplomat Alexander Darchiev was held in Moscow.

A farewell ceremony for Alexander Darchiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States, began in Moscow on Saturday, November 14. The relevant footage is published by Izvestia.

Relatives and friends of the diplomat, his colleagues, as well as representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended the funeral event. The participants of the ceremony brought bouquets of red roses to the coffin.

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Darchiev's death from a chronic illness became known on November 11. On that day, Zakharova said that Russia was receiving a large number of condolences in connection with the incident. By that time, they had been expressed at the United Nations, and also sent by a representative of the US Congress, Anna Paulina Luna, who called the deceased a patriot who honorably represented the interests of Russia.

The hereditary diplomat was born on May 14, 1960 in Budapest (Hungarian People's Republic). From 1983 to 1992, Darchiev worked at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences, first as a graduate student, then as a junior and senior researcher. He joined the diplomatic service in 1992.