Russia Dismisses Alleged Recording of Remarks on Ukrainian Crisis as 'Phony Concoction'

MOSCOW, April 4 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed on Friday an alleged recording of a conversation between two Russian diplomats as a “phony compilation of sounds, subtitles and pictures” that does not deserve a commentary.

Some media sources earlier reported that a recording of an alleged conversation between two Russian ambassadors in Africa with remarks on the UN voting on Crimea resolution had been circulated on the Internet.

The ministry said that some of the pictures used in the clip were of former Soviet ambassador to US Yuri Dubinin, who died in 2013.

“It is a hastily and cynically concocted story, made in a botched up attempt to divert attention from scandals around remarks by Western diplomats on Ukraine that have recently been revealed to the public,” the ministry concluded.

http://en.ria.ru/news/20140404/189041563/Russia-Dismisses-Alleged-Recording-of-Remarks-on-Ukrainian-Crisis-as-Phony-Concoction.html

There is no doubt that the guy on the right is, as the article states , Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin.

Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin (7 October 1930 – 20 December 2013) was a Russian Soviet-era diplomat. He was born in Moscow.[1] He was the Soviet Union's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1986; Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1990; and Ambassador to France from 1990 to 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dubinin was a Russian deputy foreign minister from 1994 to 1996.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Dubinin



For the benefit of doubt the UN meeting was March 2014 which you may well find followed his death in late 2013.