Honorary General Consul of Monaco Igor Yurgens (right)
Photo: Dmitry Azarov
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Monaco Opens Consulate in Moscow
The Guest House on Delegatskaya St. in Moscow will become the general consulate of the Principality of Monaco after its restoration. The ceremonial opening of the reception has already taken place and former vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Igor Yurgens has been appointed honorary general consul.
Until the opening of the reception at the Guest House, Monaco had no representation in Moscow, although it had a consulate in St. Petersburg. It also opened a consulate in Estonia a month a go. The country's leader, Prince Albert II, attended the opening in Tallinn.
Deputy chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky spoke at the opening in Moscow. Also present were Wimm-Bill-Dann head David Yabokashvili, whose family lives in Monaco and who visits there every weekend, editor-in-chief of the magazine Political Class Vitaly Tretyakov, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Defense Policy Sergey Karaganov and chairman of the board of the Russian Marketing Association Alexander Braverman.
The mansion that houses the Monegasque consulate was once the home of the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts. The museum was relocated due to plans to use the site to build a offices of the Permanent Committee of Russia and Belarus. The building was successfully defended, however. It is now maintained by the Presidential Property Fund.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 03, 2008
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