General: Until recently,
Ryabkov was head of the department of European cooperation of the
Russian Foreign Ministry.
Ryabkov was born in 1960. In 1982 he graduated from the
Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations of the Foreign Ministry of the USSR. He speaks English and Danish.
Ryabkov has been working for the Foreign Ministry since 1982. He held various diplomatic posts in the central office and abroad. In 1995-1999
Ryabkov was head of the
OSCE department of the department of European cooperation; in 2002-2005 he was minister-counsellor of the Russian