Vladimir Yakunin was trained as a rocket engineer at the Leningrad Mechanical Institute, later moving to New York, where he served as a diplomat and an intelligence officer for the KGB. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he became a minister in the Transport and Railway ministries and was later appointed CEO of Russian Railways, Today he combines his role as chairman of the Dialogue of Civilizations, an NGO dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue, with his post as chair of political science at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed.The state that he had served for all his adult life had been dissolved, the values he knew abandoned. Millions of his compatriots suffered as their...
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