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Torkunov receiving his Order of Merit for the Fatherland from President Vladimir Putin in 2007.
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| Born | 26 August 1950 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet Russian |
| Fields | International relations |
| Institutions | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Known for | Diplomat, Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
Anatoly Vasilyevich Torkunov (Russian: Анатолий Васильевич Торкунов; born 26 August 1950) is a Soviet and Russian diplomat and international relations scholar.
The rector of Moscow's State Institute of International Relations, Torkunov is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Collegium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
He serves chairman of the United Nations Association of Russia.
Anatoly Torkunov was in Moscow in 1956 and graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1972.
Torkunov began teaching at the institute in 1974, while carrying out post-graduate work related to Africa and Asia. He was awarded the degree of candidate of sciences in history for a dissertation on the installation and consolidation of bureaucratic military rule in South Korea in 1977. He left the Institute of International Relations to work at the Soviet embassy in the United States, serving as second and first secretary in 1983-1986.
He resumed his academic work at the Institute upon returning to the Soviet Union, where he was promoted to professor in 1991. He became rector of the Institute in 1992 and was awarded the degree of doctor of political sciences in 1995.
Torkunov has praised the Russian Orthodox Church as an institution that "will play a decisive part in the dialog of civilizations" and has various ties between the church and the International Relations Institute during his rectorship.[1] The Institute's Church and International Relations Center was founded in 1997.[1]
Elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003, he became full member of the Academy in 2008.
Torkunov holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary since 1993.
Since 2008 Rector Torkunov has been Co-Chairing Polish-Russian Group For Difficult Issues together with former Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld.