Politics and society: Photo chronicle of Russian diplomacy exhibited in Moscow

February 28, 2012 at the World Trade Center in Moscow opened a photo exhibition of the Russian Foreign Ministry official photographer Edward Pesov "Shots."

The opening was attended by Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov; former Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov; former Prime Minister of Russia and former Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov; Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Russian State Duma, Konstantin Kosachev; the Russian President's aide Sergei Prikhodko.

Opening the photo exhibition, the present Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that it is unique, because "the collection is exhibited this way for the first time."

The photo exhibition features photographs made by Edward Pesov during his work at the Foreign Ministry of Russia. These are both newsreel and genre pictures.

According to Sergei Lavrov, the most important thing is that all these works "have been made by our legendary photojournalist, our friend Edward Pesov."

"He created not only a chronicle of our foreign diplomacy, but showed the merits of the people he photographed," said Sergey Lavrov. He named Edward Pesov "very valuable shot of the Russian Foreign Ministry."