Sergiy Korsunsky (born August 10, 1962) is a Ukrainian

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. He previously served as

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of Ukraine to the United States during 2005 and

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of Ukraine to

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(2008-2016). Director of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in 2017-2020. He was ambassador of Ukraine to

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from April 2020 to December 2024.

Education

Sergiy Korsunsky graduated from

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (; also known as Kyiv University, Shevchenko University, or KNU) is a public university in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is the third-oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and ...

in 1984, faculty for Mathematics and Mechanics.

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(Physics and Mathematics). In 1995, he undertook a professional training course at the Institute for International Relations, Kyiv State University

Career

1984 — 1988 — Researcher with the

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. 1988 — 1991 — Researcher-Consultant, Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 1991 — 1994 — Director-General of the Department for State Scientific and Technological Programs at the State Committee on Science and Technologies of Ukraine 1994 — 1995 — Secretary of the first class of the Ukraine’s National Commission for

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1995 — 1998 — Counsellor for Economy, Science and Technologies, Embassy of Ukraine to the

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1998 — 2000 — Deputy Head of the Department for Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 2000 — 2006 — Counsellor, Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C., in 2005 charge d' Affairs a.i. of Ukraine to the

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. 2006 — 2008 — Head of the Department for Economic Cooperation,

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July 2008 — up to June 18, 2016 —

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to the Republic of

October 2017 – April 2020 - Director, Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine April 14, 2020 - December 21, 2024 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan

Controversies

In April 2022, he retweeted a

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post in which a Japanese

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Twitter user referred to

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as an aggressor such as

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, and later came under heavy criticism from Koreans. On September 3, 2024, Korsunsky visited the

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"to pay his respects to those who lost their lives in service to their country". The Yasukuni Shrine is politically controversial because it also enshrines wartime leaders executed as Class A war criminals from the

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such as

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. The visit sparked online controversies and the initial post by Ukrainian embassy in Japan on

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was deleted by Sep.5.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3277434/ukraine-envoy-disrespects-china-yasukuni-shrine-visit-sets-social-media-storm

Academic affiliations

Visiting professor

Kobe Gakuin University is a private, co-educational university located on the western edge of the city of Kobe, in Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan. It was founded in 1966 and overlooks the city of Akashi, the Akashi Straits and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge - the longest su ...

, Japan Honorary professor

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University () is a higher education institution. The university was established by Kyiv municipal council through reorganization of Kyiv regional Teachers Training Institute named after Borys Hrinchenko. The ...

, Ukraine

Author publications

Author of more than 350 academic papers and other publications including 8 books, among them "Nonlinear waves in dispersive and dissipative systems with coupled fields" (Addison, Wesley. Longman, 1997), “Technology Transfer in the United States” (Kyiv, 2005), “Energy Diplomacy” (Kyiv, 2008), "Foreign Policy in Times of Transformations: how not to be left on the sidelines of history"(Kharkiv, 2020), How to build relations with Asian countries: economy, diplomacy, cultural peculiarities (Kharkiv, 2021), How nations reborn: experience of East Asia (Kharkiv, 2023). Author of 10 books of fiction published in 2010-2019 under the pen-name Sergey Vladich (in Russian), as hobby

References

External links

AMBASSADOR OF UKRAINE DR. SERGIY KORSUNSKY’S VISIT

Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Turkey

An Interview with Mr. Sergiy Korsunsky, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey

* ttp://www.todayszaman.com/interviews_ukrainian-ambassador-time-a-very-good-warrior-on-our-side_350578.html Ukrainian ambassador: Time a very good warrior on our side
Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Sergiy Korsunsky tells SES Türkiye that Ankara's support has been "continuous and adequate."

Ukrainian envoy: Captive OSCE observers expected to be freed
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