{"id":15372,"date":"2026-11-11T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russias-u-s-ambassador-dies-suddenly-at-66-moscow-says-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:00:59","slug":"russias-u-s-ambassador-dies-suddenly-at-66-moscow-says-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/russias-u-s-ambassador-dies-suddenly-at-66-moscow-says-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s U.S. ambassador dies \u2018suddenly\u2019 at 66, Moscow says &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Russias-U.S.-ambassador-dies-\u2018suddenly-at-66-Moscow-says-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-byline\" readability=\"56\">\n<div class=\"c-byline__text\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span>By Staff<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-byline__source c-byline__source--noName\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Associated Press<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-byline__datesWrapper\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<div class=\"c-byline__dates\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Posted November 11, 2026 1:50 pm<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1 min read<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"36.215545755237\">\n<div class=\"l-article__details\" data-article-socialshare=\"true\" readability=\"13.761658031088\">\n<div id=\"article-fontSizer\" class=\"c-fontSizer\" readability=\"34\">\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--decrease c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Decrease Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Decrease text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=fc5vd2ara#font-decrease\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--increase c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Increase Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Increase text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=fc5vd2ara#font-increase\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"l-article__text js-story-text\" aria-label=\"Article text\" readability=\"52.649572649573\">\n<p>Alexander Darchiev, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> ambassador to the United States, died Wednesday at age 66, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in an online statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It did not disclose where the diplomat died or give a cause of death, saying only that he died \u201csuddenly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement described Darchiev as \u201can outstanding diplomat, experienced leader, good comrade and mentor,\u201d as well as a brilliant scholar of U.S. affairs, working \u201cin one of the most important areas of Russian foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.2635379061372\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Russias-U.S.-ambassador-dies-\u2018suddenly-at-66-Moscow-says-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.388086642599\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get daily National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The longtime diplomat served as the ambassador to the U.S. since early 2025, according to his profile page on the website of the Russian Embassy in Washington. He succeeded Anatoly Antonov, who was relieved of his duties in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Darchiev headed the Foreign Ministry\u2019s departments of North America and the North Atlantic; served as ambassador to Canada; and was a minister-counselor at the Washington embassy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.40597539543058\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In February 2025, Darchiev headed Russia\u2019s delegation in Istanbul for talks with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Another Russian diplomat, Moscow\u2019s U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in February 2017 in New York at age 64. At his death, Churkin was the longest-serving ambassador on the U.N. Security Council, having held the post since 2006. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised him as an \u201cexceptional professional and people\u2019s diplomat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry did not give a date or a location for Darchiev\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"l-article__copyright\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 11, 2026 1:50 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alexander Darchiev, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United States,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372","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=15372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}