The death of the diplomat: the memorable Yevgeny Primakov – RBC

Yevgeny Primakov began his career as an orientalist-Arabist – in 1953 graduated from the Arabic Department of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1956 – graduate of economic faculty of Moscow State University, in 1959 he defended his thesis “The export of capital in some Arab countries – a means of ensuring a monopoly high profits. ” Since 1956, he worked in the USSR Radio and Television, having risen from reporter to editor in chief of broadcasting in the Arab countries. In the years 1962-1970 covered the events in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the newspaper

“Pravda”, during which he met with Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz and other Middle East leaders.

In the photo : awarding the Avicenna Academician Yevgeny Primakov (left). Right – the co-chairman of the jury for the Avicenna Prize Rashidudin Khan. 1983