{"id":15285,"date":"2026-11-11T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies-suddenly-foreign-ministry\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:30:53","slug":"russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies-suddenly-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies-suddenly-foreign-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ambassador to the US dies \u2018suddenly\u2019 \u2013 Foreign Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Russian-ambassador-to-the-US-dies-\u2018suddenly-\u2013-Foreign-Ministry.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Russian ambassador to the US dies \u2018suddenly\u2019 \u2013 Foreign Ministry\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Russian-ambassador-to-the-US-dies-\u2018suddenly-\u2013-Foreign-Ministry.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Alexander-Darchiev-e1794417946345-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Alexander-Darchiev-e1794417946345-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Alexander-Darchiev-e1794417946345-1536x981.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Alexander-Darchiev-e1794417946345.jpg 1578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died \u201csuddenly\u201d at the age of 66 after just one and a half years in the job, Moscow\u2019s foreign\u00a0ministry announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry called Darchiev an \u201coutstanding diplomat, an experienced leader and a kind colleague\u201d. He was appointed in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow did not give more details on the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darchiev previously served as Russia\u2019s ambassador to Canada between 2014 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 Russia against the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darchiev was a specialist in Russia-US relations and was the director of the foreign ministry\u2019s North America department between 2021-2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, when Russia attacked Ukraine, Darchiev called the move a \u201cnecessary measure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/russian-ambassador-to-the-us-dies-suddenly-foreign-ministry\/\">Russian ambassador to the US dies \u2018suddenly\u2019 \u2013 Foreign Ministry<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard 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 years in the job, Moscow\u2019s foreign\u00a0ministry announced Wednesday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285","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=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}