Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov (Russian: ?´??? ??´???????? ????´???, born 1947) is a high-level diplomat of the Russian Federation.
Since 2010 he has served as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, after having previously served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom.Fedotov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1971.
He has held many foreign service positions to the UN and worked at Soviet embassies in Algeria and India.In 2002 he became the Russian Federation's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and held this post until 2005.From 2005 until 2010 he held the post of Ambassador of Russia to the Court of St.