“It had finally abandoned its last great remaining principle: to serve peace, not war”—a former Russian diplomat explains why he quit his country’s diplomatic service over Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine
attack on Ukraine on February 24th was a moment of truth for me. It led to my resignation as a senior Russian diplomat just weeks later. That is because it became crystal clear that to stay in the foreign service and to continue to work for the government unequivocally meant supporting Russian aggression. The war against Ukraine, and against the entire West, has been the gravest blunder of today’s Russia and I consider it a crime against the country’s future.
Soviet diplomats were truly privileged, too. They were able to travel abroad and even live there—something absolutely impossible for the vast majority of the’s population. And diplomats usually brought home wondrous Western consumer goods, from jeans and bubblegum to electronics and films. They were also supposedly privy to politics and state secrets. Quite a romantic profession, indeed.
Just a couple of years later I started my diplomatic career already somewhat disillusioned. Yet I still believed that we, the, worked to protect and promote Russian national interests. These interests, as I saw them, were to develop peaceful and beneficial co-operation with other countries. The diplomats I encountered during my first postings abroad or later were no different from the grey bureaucrats I had met before.
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