{"id":15260,"date":"2026-11-11T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:01:12","slug":"russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ambassador to the US dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"48.149722735675\">\n<p>Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died \u201csuddenly\u201d at the age of 66 after just one-and-a-half year in the job, Moscow\u2019s foreign ministry announced Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ministry called Darchiev an \u201coutstanding diplomat, an experienced leader and a kind colleague\u201d. He was appointed in March 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>Moscow did not give more details on the death.\n<\/p>\n<p>Darchiev previously served as Russia\u2019s ambassador to Canada, between 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed to the US role last year, shortly after President Donald Trump returned to power, and several years into Moscow\u2019s Ukraine offensive that has pitted Moscow against the West. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Darchiev was a specialist in Russia-US relations and was the director of the foreign ministry\u2019s North America department between 2014 and 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, when Russia attacked Ukraine, Darchiev called the move a \u201cnecessary measure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#394d515c5c5d504d564b79494c575a51575e175a5654\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"3b4f535e5e5f524f54497b4b4e555853555c15585456\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died \u201csuddenly\u201d at the age of 66 after just one-and-a-half year in the job, Moscow\u2019s foreign ministry announced Wednesday. The ministry&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}