Churkin. Translation difficulties. Memories

"Difficulties of translation", a book of memoirs Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, is published for the first time. The school in mnevniki, MGIMO, the embassy in Washington, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Canada, Arctic and, finally, the UN - we will learn many details from the perspective of the master of world diplomacy.
The experience of the translator at the beginning of his career, according to the author, helped him all his life. The young second secretary of the USSR Embassy surprised America when he opposed the US Congress at a hearing after an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He led the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a turning point and difficult for our country. And then, in his own expression, he literally had to transfer to the armored personnel carrier the special representative of the President of Russia in the Balkans, where there was a bloody war.
The peak of the quarry of the superstar of world diplomacy is the UN tribune. The skill, mind and hardness of Vitaly Churkin was appreciated not only by his like -minded people, but also by opponents. He managed to put an end to his book: "... a new chapter in the history of the UN opened." But already without Vitaly Churkin