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An expert on India

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, AUG. 3. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has appointed a top Foreign Ministry official and a former Russian master-spy as Russia's new Ambassador to India.

Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the First Deputy Foreign Minister, is replacing Alexander Kadakin as Russia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to India. Like Mr. Kadakin, Mr. Trubnikov, 60, is an expert on India and is fluent in Hindi as well as English. A graduate of Russia's premier diplomatic school, the Institute of International Relations, Mr. Trubnikov spent 13 years in South Asia, most of it in India, as well as in Bangladesh, as a foreign intelligence officer of the Soviet KGB and then as the KGB station head in India.

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