Oleg Grinevsky

Oleg Alekseyevich Grinevsky (Олег Алексеевич Гриневский) (3 June 1930 – 5 February 2019) was a Russian diplomat, former Ambassador to Sweden, political scientist, Cand.Sc. (history) and author.

Early life
Oleg Grinevsky was born in Moscow, in what was then the Russian SFSR, part of the Soviet Union.

Diplomatic activity

 * Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
 * former Soviet security adviser to the Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin governments
 * Graduated from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute for International Relations) in 1954.
 * Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR in 1957.
 * Senior Adviser at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., 1954.
 * 1983-1989 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Stockholm conference
 * 1989-1991 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Vienna conference
 * 1991-1997 Russian Ambassador to Sweden
 * Since 1999 - scientist, political researcher, author of political and historical books
 * Awarded the Swedish Order of the Polar Star (2009)

International conferences activity

 * Participated in the numerous international conferences on security and nuclear security issues.