The changing of the guard: memorable than the previous U.S. ambassadors to Russia

The former Governor of Utah John huntsman has agreed to be the American Ambassador to Russia. It is likely that it will become the new head of the US diplomatic mission in Russia.


 


To him for two decades, the Russian Federation took seven American ambassadors. Commentator of TV channel “Star” Fedor Ivanjica recalled diplomats from the US, which left a noticeable trace.


 


“The charm of sudden Alliance”. Alexander Vershbow, Ambassador to Russia to the United States in 2001-2005.


 


For four years in Moscow, Vershbow visited different parts of Russia, gave hundreds of interviews, gave lectures, met with politicians and businessmen. It is when it is in the relations between Russia and the United States began a turn for the better, but not so much due to the efforts of a diplomat, much of the tragedy of September 11, when Putin offered Bush a strategic partnership in the fight against international terrorism.


 


“Specialist in color revolutions”. Michael McFaul was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 2012-2014.


 


Is considered a specialist in color revolutions, planted democracies and the overthrow of regimes. His long mission in Russia and remained unfulfilled.


 


According to the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, McFaul “purposefully spoil bilateral relations.” His political career has been a lot of controversial statements about rampant Russia and its leader, who allegedly is looking for external enemies.


 


“Policy of isolation”. John Tefft, the U.S. Ambassador in Russia from 2014 to the present.



Still, the current U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft was the head of American diplomatic mission in Georgia during the armed conflict with South Ossetia and then moved to Ukraine, where shortly after his departure happened on Euromaidan.


 


A tough negotiator, not prone to compromise. It is considered as McFaul, a specialist in color revolutions. When Tefft still headed the diplomatic mission in Moscow, an unnamed source in the Department claimed that this appointment shows the US policy of isolation of Russia.

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