He has on hell of a resume or CV but he seems a technical guy.

Biography
Alexander Darchiev-diplomat, Russian Ambassador to the United States, former head of the Embassy in Canada (2014-2021).

Early years, education
Alexander Darchiev was born on May 14, 1960 in Hungary in the family of a diplomatic worker.

In 1983, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University and entered the postgraduate program of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Three years later, he defended his dissertation on “Left-liberal forces in the social and political life of the United States, 70-80-ies” and received the title of Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Until 1992, he was a research associate at the Institute of the USA and Canada.

Diplomatic career
In 1992, Darchiev joined the diplomatic service. He started his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Department of North America, and in the mid-1990s became the head of the department there.

From 1997 to 2002, he was an adviser to the Russian Embassy in the United States.

In 2003, he became Deputy Director of the North America Department.

In 2005, he returned to the United States and worked for five years as an adviser-envoy of the Russian Embassy.

In 2010, he returned to Moscow and became head of the North America Department.

On October 24, 2014, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Canada.

Darchiev’s service in Canada comes at a time when relations between the two countries have seriously deteriorated due to the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Since March 2014, Moscow and Ottawa have consistently tightened sanctions against each other. A major expansion of restrictive measures occurred in 2022 after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. In an interview with TASS, Darchiev, who had already returned to Russia, said that Canada “long ago abandoned an independent foreign policy.” In an interview with Interfax in the same year, heHe said that” since the historic reunification of Crimea with Russia, ” the United States and Canada “have been whipping up Russophobic hysteria in unison.”

In January 2021, he returned to Russia and again took up the position of Director of the North America Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in January 2025, it was renamed the North Atlantic Department).

In 2022, commenting on the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, Darchiev called the Russian military operation “a forced measure that disrupted the scenario of the actual genocide of Russians in the former Ukrainian territories.” He also said that Russia is open to an” honest and mutually respectful dialogue “with the United States” to the extent that the United States is ready for this.”

Appointment as US Ambassador
In November 2024, it became known that Alexander Darchiev became the most likely candidate for the post of Russian ambassador to the United States after the resignation of Anatoly Antonov a month earlier. In December of the same year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the United States welcomed a new candidate for the post of ambassador to Washington, although he did not mention Darchiev’s name at the time.

On February 18, 2025, a meeting of the Russian and US delegations was held in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, where the parties discussed the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine and other issues. These were the first large-scale talks between representatives of the two countries in recent years, including since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine.

At that meeting, the parties agreed to restore the number of embassy staff in Moscow and Washington.

Russia and the United States have repeatedly exchanged expulsions of diplomats. The number of embassy staff in both countries has been declining significantly since 2016, when the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats. In response, in 2017, the Russian Foreign Ministry suggested that the State Department bring the number of diplomatic and technical staff of the American embassy in Moscow, as well as consulates general in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, in line with the number of Russian diplomats and employees in the United States. After that, the staff of American diplomatic institutions in Russia was reduced by 755 people, to 455.

In 2021, Washington imposed new sanctions against Moscow and announced the next expulsion of Russian diplomats. Russia responded by restricting the work of the US embassy, which caused the United States to dismiss 182 employees of its diplomatic mission.

After 2022, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assessed the level of relations with Washington as low. “There are practically no contacts, with the exception of discussing the conditions for the functioning of our diplomatic missions in the United States and the work of their diplomats in the Russian Federation. < ... > The conversation is so tedious, proposals are pouring in one direction or the other,” the minister noted.

On February 27, Istanbul hosted talks on normalizing the work of diplomatic missions. The Russian delegation was led by Alexander Darchiev, and the United States was represented by Sonata Coulter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Eurasia.

On February 28, the Foreign Ministry reported that during the negotiations, the United States handed over to Russia a note with Agreman on the appointment of Darchiev as the new Russian ambassador to Washington.

Diplomatic rank and awards
Darchiev holds the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (2016).

Awarded the Orders of Friendship (2019) and Honor (2022).

Personal life
Darchiev is married and has a daughter. His wife’s name is Tamilya Akhmetzhanova. There is no other detailed information about the diplomat’s family in open sources.

Darchiev speaks English and French.

After today and watching that mess at the UN and at the UNSC, I came across this:

This old timer is a comedic genius 🤣 😂 pic.twitter.com/loRwkTy9Q7

— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) February 24, 2025

I’ll update on South Africa as soon as I have a moment. The government cannot balance a budget and have no more money left. This is what Ramaphosa had to run from the G20 to go and do, make speech to try and calm down the population.

Mr Lavrov is going to Iran for his next trip which is imminent.

Just moments ago and there is very little information available, the leader of SAAI (biggest family farm union in South Africa – Southern African Agri Initiative) was arrested. The price of not toeing the government line on expropriation without compensation?

Rampahosa’s next international visitor is the acclaimed pretend president from country 404, Zelenski himself.

Comments are scorching .. You just pissed off Trump you moron! Now you want to piss off Putin – voetsek! which is a local word for FU.

The scandals are not ending. The USAid money has dried up, and all kinds of health workers cannot be paid salaries. Apparently, a large portion of South Africa’s health sector salaries were paid with USAid money.

Exploding busses .. it stinks of false flag.  There is one bomb that had the proverbial ‘undamaged passport’ – what was written on it was “a gift from Tulkarm camp”.

A massive scandal has just broken loose. AHH will remember the name Nalendi Pandor—the previous foreign minister of South Africa. We talked a little about her disappearing after she lost her seat in the previous elections. Well, she has surfaced. And now we will understand the “very bad things are happening in South Africa” that Donald Trump talked about, of course from his perspective and rightly or wrongly.

First, facts:
Without AGOA, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, there will be significant problems. So, this is a trade agreement with the US and has been with around 30 countries since around 2000. How popular will South Africa be in Africa if this trade agreement is canceled?
Second, what can Nalendi do all by herself to create those “very bad things” that piss of the US mightily?
There is currently no way in hell that South Africa can fight the US – they don’t have the smarts and it is like a mouse trying to fight a gorilla.

The question that certain people researched was: what are the BRICS countries really doing to support South Africa? One marshmallow comment from China – one kind comment and crickets. The rest are not saying a word. It seems that at least Russia and China know what has happened here. So, they don’t want to touch this. It looks like Cyril Ramaphosa quickly signed the expropriation without compensation to hide the real scandal which is part of what Trump is harping upon.

The real scandal is that Nalendi worked with Iran for money to cover some governmental debt quietly, while the exports under AGOA to the US and exports to Israel continued (not only coal, which we knew about). The second part of this scandal is that South Africa was paid off to start the case against Israel while happily exporting to Israel.

It seems Nalendi sat on two chairs and the government has been found out big time!. A while ago, there was a great need for government money in South Africa, and all of a sudden, the money was there, as if by magic. It is said it came from Iran as payment for starting the genocide case against Israel. Those who are digging into this cannot confirm (yet) that it was Iran on the other side of this trade. I caution it might not be but so far .. it looks like it.
So I just listened to a little clip of Pandor (local language). She blames the civil societies that are fighting the expropriation without compensation legislation. This is not only land, this is also businesses or companies or anything of value – even a vehicle that you might be driving along the road. And she said a bit too much. This is what she said .. If you cannot export your grapes to Israel, blame the civil societies and ask them for your money. If you cannot export your products to the US, it is the civil societies – go and ask them for your money.

So South Africa has continually traded with Israel, while being paid off to run the genocide case against them.

Thus, civil societies are pushed into the hands of the US. Delegations are being given a hearing, and they ask that if there are sanctions or further ‘punishment’, please punish the government, not the people. So far, the South African government cannot even get a hearing in the US—they are being totally ignored.

I cannot even tell how much harm this will cost. The case against Israel will just quietly fall apart and god knows who South Africa is going to trade with. Hatred against Iran is being expressed, and any willingness to at least countenance BRICS for 25% of the population is gone – they wanted a neutral state for South Africa. And that is just a start. The South African government wow .. they did not do BRICS any favors, they did not do their own people any favors – the only one that I can count, is that they did Israel a massive favor.

RT has just broken the story, of course not translating the words of Pandor in full. The comments however are direct .. So madam, if you have no proof, why make the accusation and why the conjecture? BTW so maybe the lady would answer this question. How much did Iran pay to the ANC to take Israel to the ICJ? And did you benefit in any way? https://www.rt.com/africa/613016-naledi-pandor-suggest-afriforum-mend-south-africa-us-ties/

That Delta flight that crashed in Toronto and ended up on his back basically – nobody killed that I heard of but of course injuries.

https://t.me/geopolitics_live/44048

Far as I know Mr P is that this Ukraine specific meeting is supposed to take place after the Munich summit, and not as part of it.  I have not seen any professional source (excepting Trump and his trumpets) announcing it.  Perhaps there is something.  No, Russia was not invited to the Munich summit.

“[beautiful. I am getting optimistic too Amarynth. What a few days]”

You? hahaaaa ….  I am just clinging to hope!  At least over the past year and almost half, we learned to do that well!   There is a moment breaking loose here dear friend .. Oh what a feeling, dancing on the ceiling!