New US Ambassador May Arrive in Russia This Month

New US Ambassador Lynn Tracy is expected to arrive in Russia before the end of January, informed RBC citing sources familiar with the situation.

“The new US ambassador will arrive in Moscow at the end of the month,” one of them said.

US Senate supported President Joe Biden’s nomination of Lynn Tracy for the post of Washington’s ambassador to Russia in late December. Tracy will be the first woman to serve as US Ambassador to Russia. The Russian side is already gave consent to this appointment.

Tracey worked in Russia in 2014-2017. as Deputy Ambassador to Moscow, and also served as Senior Adviser on Russian Affairs at the State Department. In 2019, Tracy was appointed US Ambassador to Yerevan.

Since 2019, John Sullivan has been the US Ambassador to Moscow. He ended his job early in September due to cancer that his wife, Grace Rodriguez, was battling. She died the day after Sullivan’s resignation was announced. The former ambassador emphasized that the early termination of his powers had nothing to do with the Russian special operation or the policies of the Biden administration.