List of ambassadors of Russia to Brunei

In 1987, President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev called for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Brunei.^[1] Although the Soviet ambassador to Singapore attempted to establish said relations with Brunei in 1988, the Sultanate was unprepared to establish relations with the Communist state at the time. On 1 October 1991, Brunei established relations with the Soviet Union,^[2][3] and Soviet relations with the Sultanate were initially handled via the Soviet embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[4]

This is a list of Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to Brunei.^[5]

Russian Federation

Term of office	Name
25 December 1991 - 1992	Anatoly Khmelnitsky
6 August 1993 - 10 August 1998	Vitaly Vorobyov
10 August 1998 - 26 June 2000	Alexey Zhukov
15 September 2000 - 14 April 2005	Vladimir Morozov
14 April 2005 - 31 July 2009	Alexander Karchava
31 July 2009–Present	Viktor Seleznev

References

1. In the Shadow of Giants, A. James Gregor, pg 160
2. Gorbachev and Southeast Asia By Leszek Buszynski, pg 211
3. Политические контакты (in Russian). Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 5 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
4. Посольство СССР в Брунее (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
5. ПОСЛЫ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В СТРАНАХ АЗИАТСКОГО РЕГИОНА (in Russian). Worldwide Historical Project. Retrieved 2009-11-18.