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Mr. Churkin with Samantha Power, then the American ambassador to the United Nations, before a vote on the Ukrainian crisis in the Security Council in 2014.
Andrew Kelly/Reuters; thumbnail, Eduardo Munoz/Reuters, 2015
Vitaly Churkin
Died on February 20, 2017 at age 64
As the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Churkin represented his country through times of domestic tumult and rising tensions with the West.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.