page_title: Foreign relations of Thailand
section_title: Russia
hierarchical_section_title: Foreign relations of Thailand / Asia / Russia
caption_attribution_description: English: BANGKOK. President Putin with Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra before the start of the APEC Summit.
context_page_description: The foreign relations of Thailand are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
  Thailand participates fully in international and regional organizations. It has developed close ties with other ASEAN members—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam—whose foreign and economic ministers hold annual meetings. Regional cooperation is progressing in economic, trade, banking, political, and cultural matters. In 2003, Thailand served as APEC host. Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, served as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from 2005 until 31 August 2013. In 2005 Thailand attended the inaugural East Asia Summit.
  Since the military coup of May 2014, Thailand's global reputation has plunged, according to Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Chulalongkorn University. He maintains that, "When the fourth anniversary of Thailand's coup comes to pass later this month [May 2018], Thailand's foreign relations will be one of the many costs to be counted from the military government....
context_section_description: The Soviet Union and Thailand established diplomatic relations with each other on 12 March 1941; Thailand recognised Russian Federation as the successor to Soviet Union on 28 December 1991.  Russia has an embassy in Bangkok and two honorary consulates in Phuket and Pattaya. Thailand has an embassy in Moscow and two honorary consulates in Saint Petersburg and Vladivostok.
caption: President Putin with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra before the start of the APEC Summit in 2003
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