Russian diplomats including Boris Bondarev , Russia's counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva, photographed at open-ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats on 11th May 2022.
Russian diplomats including Boris Bondarev , Russia's counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva, photographed at open-ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats on 11th May 2022. Bondarev resigned his post citing his opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine on 23 May 2022. Creation Date:WASHINGTON — As the Russian invasion of Ukraine began to falter last spring, a colleague of Boris Bondarev at the Russian mission at the U.N.
that was published online earlier this week. It is currently the most-read item on the magazine's website. Bondarev was born in 1980 into the relatively comfortable Soviet intelligentsia; his maternal grandfather had been a military hero, and the family still lived in the roomy Moscow apartment the grandfather had been assigned after the “Great Patriotic War,” as World War II is known in Russia. Intending to eventually follow his mother into academia , Bondarev joined the Foreign Ministry in 2000 as an intern.
Bondarev argues that the same strain of fear kept high-ranking Kremlin deputies from challenging Putin, especially as he consolidated his power after returning to the presidency in 2012 following a four-year break from power mandated by the Russian Constitution .