Russian Government Commissions

 
 
 

Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

 
 
 
  • Official Website  http://unesco.ru/en/
  • Руководитель  Sergei Lavrov

The Commission is an interdepartmental body established to coordinate interaction between Russian state services, public organisations and individuals with recognised influence in science and culture, and the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO). 

The Commission has the following responsibilities:

  • to liaise between the Russian Government and UNESCO, handling Russia's participation in the group's operation;

  • to attract state bodies, public associations and other groups and individuals to develop, prepare and participate in UNESCO events and programmes aimed at development of education, science, culture and communication, and coordinates their work;

  • to issue recommendations for policies represented by Russian Government delegations to UNESCO, and provides other assistance to the official delegations.

Members:

Sergei Lavrov, Minister of  Foreign Affairs (Chairman of the commission);

Alexander Dzasokhov, Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Culture (Deputy Chairman of the commission, external advisor);

Vladimir Fortov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Academy's Presidium (Deputy Chairman of the commission);

Ara Abramyan, Chairman of the Union of Russian Armenians, President of the World Armenian Congress, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (external advisor);

Vagit Alekperov, President of LUKoil (external advisor);

Irina Antonova, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts;

Damba Ayushev, Head of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia, Pandito Hambo Lama (external advisor);

Ivan Belekov, Chairman of the State Assembly - El Kurultai of the Altai Republic;

Andrei Belousov: Minister of Economic Development;

Vsevolod Bogdanov, Chairman of the Union of Russian Journalists (external advisor);

Yury Brazhnikov, Director of the International Department at the Emergency Situations Ministry, Head of the Russian National Corps of Emergency Humanitarian Response;

Yakov Brand, Head of the Emergency Cardiac Surgery Department at the Sklifosovsky Emergency Research Institute (external advisor);

Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Rector of St Petersburg State University;

Ivetta Voronova, President of the New Names Interregional Charity Foundation (external advisor);

Yelena Gagarina, Director General of the Moscow Kremlin museums;

Gennady Gatilov: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Director of the State Academic Mariinsky Theater;

Rinat Gizatulin: Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment;

Ilya Glazunov, People's Artist of the USSR, rector of the Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture;

Vladimir Grachyov, Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Vladimir Gusev, Director of the State Russian Museum;

Abdusalam Guseinov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Academy's Philosophy Institute;

Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director General of ITAR-TASS, Chairman of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication;

Oleg Deripaska, Director General of Basic Element (external advisor);

Oleg Dobrodeyev, Director General of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company VGTRK;

Yelena Drapeko, People's Artist of the USSR, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Culture Committee;

Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Chairman of the Board of Sistema financial company (external advisor);

Vladimir Yegorov, Chief Research Fellow, Research Advisor at the International Institute (Faculty) of State Administration and Management at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration;

Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region;

Vera Zvonaryova, Merited Master of Sports, Promoter of Gender Equality (UNESCO) (external advisor);

Vitaly Ignatenko, Merited Russian Cultural Worker, Director General of ITAR-TASS, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador;

Takhir Iksanov, Director General of the Russian State Academic Bolshoi Theatre;

Ilarion (Grigory Alfeyev), Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations (external advisor);

Alexander Kalyagin, People's Artist of Russia, Chairman of the Russian Theater Workers' Union (external advisor);

Sergei Kapitsa, Chief Research Fellow at the Kapitsa Research Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences;

Iosif Kobzon, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Culture Committee (external advisor);

Nikolai Kosov, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Vnesheconombank;

Yevgeny Kuzmin, President of the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, Chairman of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO Information for All Programme (external advisor);

Elvira Kunina, Director of the State Russian House of Folk Arts, Chairman of the Russian Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Commission;

Yury Laptev, Presidential Advisor (external advisor);

Dmitry Livanov: Minister of Education and Science;

Anatoly Lysenko, Merited Arts Worker of Russia, President of the International Academy of Television and Radio Broadcasting (external advisor);

Georgy Maier, Rector of the Tomsk State National Research University;

Igor Makovetsky, President of the Russian National Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) of the Commission (external advisor);

Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the Federation Council (external advisor);

Vladimir Matetsky, Vice-President of the Russian Authors' Society (external advisor);

Vladimir Medinsky: Minister of Culture;

Svetlana Mironyuk, Editor-in-Chief of RIA Novosti;

Eleonora Mitrofanova, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO in Paris (external advisor);

Nikita Mikhalkov, Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Cultural Foundation (external advisor);

Denis Molchanov, Director of the Government Department for Culture;

Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sport;

Elvira Nabiullina, Aide to the President (external advisor);

Nikolai Nikandrov, President of the Russian Academy of Education;

Nikolai Nikiforov: Minister of Communications and Mass Media;

Vyacheslav Nikonov, President of the Polity Foundation, Executive Director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation (external advisor);

Alexander Novak: Minister of Energy

Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Deputy Director of the International Organisations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Executive Secretary of the Commission);

Yury Osipov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Tatyana Paukhova, Deputy General Director, Director of the Department for International Music and Culture Projects at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK);

Rem Petrov, Academician and Advisor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO Bioethics Programme;

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum;

Dzhakhan Pollyeva, Chief of Staff of the State Duma (external advisor);

Vladimir Ponyavin, Director and Member of the Board of the International Delphic Committee (external advisor);

Yevgeny Primakov, Board Chairman of Navigation Information Systems NIS GLONASS (external advisor;

Sergei Prikhodko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government Executive Office;

Leonid Roshal, Director of the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Research Institute, President of the International Charity Foundation for Helping Child Victims of War and Disasters (external advisor);

Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University;

Mikhail Seslavinsky, Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications;

Yevgeny Sidorov, First Secretary of the Union of Moscow Writers (external advisor);

Konstantin Skryabin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Academy's Bioengineering Centre;

Vladimir Spivakov, People's Artist of Russia, President of the Moscow International House of Music, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the State Chamber Orchestra Moscow Virtuosos, President of the Spivakov International Charity Foundation (external advisor);

Talgat Tadzhuddin (Tadzhuddinov), Supreme Mufti, Chairman of the Central Muslim Board of Russia (external advisor);

Valery Tishkov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Academy's Miklukho-Maklai Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology, Chairman of the Russian Committee on UNESCO's MOST (Management of Social Transformations) programme;

Anatoly Torkunov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Garegin Tosunyan, President of the Association of Russian Banks, Head of the Centre for Financial and Banking Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of State and Law (external advisor);

Maksim Travnikov, Deputy Minister of Regional Development;

Yury Trutnev, Aide to the President (external advisor);

Alisher Usmanov, Director General of Gazprominvestholding (external advisor);

Mikhail Fedonkin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Russian National Committee for UNESCO's Geoscience Programme;

Viktor Fyodorov, President of the Russian State Library;

Vyacheslav Fetisov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee for Social Policy (external advisor);

Vladimir Filippov, Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Rector of the People's Friendship University of Russia;

Alexander Frolov, Head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Chairman of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme;

Andrei Fursenko, Aide to the President (external advisors);

Irina Khaleyeva, Rector of the Moscow State Linguistics University;

Alexander Khloponin, Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District;

Zurab Tsereteli, People's Artist of Russia, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador;

Nikolai Tsiskaridze, People's Artist of Russia, dancer at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre;

Anatoly Chubais, Board Chairman of RUSNANO (external advisor);

Adolf Shayevich, Chief Rabbi of Russia, Chairman of the Congress the Jewish Religious Organisations and Associations in Russia (external advisor);

Mintimer Shaimiyev, State Advisor for the Republic of Tatarstan (external advisor);

Valery Shantsev, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region;

Lyudmila Shvetsova, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma (external advisor);

Mikhail Shvydkoi, Presidential Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation, Co-Chairman of the CIS Intergovernmental Foundation for Humanitarian Cooperation, Ambassador for Special Assignments (external advisor);

Eleonora Sheremetyeva, Head of Administration of the city of Uglich (Yaroslavl Region) (external advisor);

Igor Shchegolev, Aide to the President (external advisor);

Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (external advisor);

Konstantin Ernst, Director General of Channel One (external advisor);

Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, Co-Chairman of the Dialogue of Civilizations World Public Forum (external advisor).

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