{"id":40,"date":"2026-11-11T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-united-states-alexander-darchiev-dies-at-66\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:44:04","slug":"russian-ambassador-to-the-united-states-alexander-darchiev-dies-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-united-states-alexander-darchiev-dies-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev Dies at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova said in a social media post on November 11, 2026, that Alexander Darchiev, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, died that day in Moscow from a chronic illness.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the same day, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Ambassador Darchiev had died suddenly at the age of 66. The ministry described him as an excellent diplomat and an outstanding expert on the United States, and said the work he did was \u201cone of the most critical areas of Russian foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darchiev was born in May 1960 and graduated in 1983 from the history department of Moscow State University. He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1992 and thereafter worked on diplomacy involving North America. He served as minister-counselor at the Russian Embassy in the United States and as Russia\u2019s ambassador to Canada, among other posts. From January 2021 to January 2025 he was director of the Foreign Ministry\u2019s North America Department. In March 2025, President Putin signed an order appointing him ambassador to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Original article: https:\/\/m.thepaper.cn\/newsDetail_forward_34457373<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova said in a social media post on November 11, 2026, that Alexander Darchiev, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}