Vladimir Borisovich Lomeiko was a Russian diplomat, later a Belarusian national. Lomeiko was the foreign policy spokesman of then Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze and the last spokesman of Mikhail Gorbachev before the end of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, Lomeiko assumed the position of the Russian Ambassador to UNESCO, as well as that of Special Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO. He lived in Baden-Baden and was Executive Chairman of the Baden-Baden-Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to German-Russian dialogue.