Council of Europe

Mr Felix STANEVSKIY

(a) Present positions

Expert, ECRI, Council of Europe,
Freelance Journalist,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Retired)
2009 - Head of the Caucasus Desk, Institute of Diaspora and
Integration (Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States – CIS), Moscow

(b) Work at national level

2001 – 2002 – Head of the Caucasus Desk, Institute of Diaspora and Integration (Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States – CIS), Moscow
1991 – 2000 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
1966 – 1991 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
1988 – 1990 – Director, Human Rights Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
2003 – 2004 – President of the CIS Committee of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

(c) International work

2002 – participation in the activities of ECRI, Council of Europe
1996 – 2000 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in Georgia
1990 – 1996 – Minister-Counsellor of the Soviet/Russian Embassy in Italy, Chargé d’Affaires (1992 – 1994)
1990 – Head, Soviet Delegation, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations, New York
1988 – 2000 – attended numerous bilateral and multilateral meetings and negotiations on humanitarian issues, Copenhagen meeting of the OSCE Conference on Human Dimension, Paris meeting of the OSCE Conference on Human Dimension
1989 – 1990 – USSR Representative in the Commission on Human Rights, head of Soviet Delegation in the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva
1981 – 1983 – Adviser, USSR Delegation, Soviet – American Talks on Intermediate Range Missiles in Europe, Geneva
1976 – 1981 – Adviser, USSR Delegation to the Multilateral and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) Negotiations, Vienna
1966 – 2000 – career diplomat (attaché, third, second, first secretary, counsellor, minister, Soviet/Russian ambassador in Italy, Belgium, Georgia)
1966 – 1972 – interpreter, Soviet – Italian Summits and talks, Moscow, Rome

Publications and other works

Several hundred articles and interviews in Russian and international newspapers and magazines
Numerous interviews with Russian TV channels: RTR, First channel, NTV e TVZ, with Italian TV-7, Georgian TV channel Rustavi-2, Russian radio “Majak”, “Voice of Russia”, Italian radio Rete-4, the BBC, Svoboda.

Language skills

Russian
Italian
French, working knowledge
English, working knowledge
German, working knowledge
Spanish, reading knowledge