Obituario The Guardian, 21.02.2017 Jonathan Steele
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Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, diplomat, born 21 February 1952; died 20 February 2017. Highly respected Russian ambassador to the UN who was a tenacious, wily and witty defender of his country
Vitaly Churkin addressing the UN security council in New York in... 


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