The United States decided to replace ambassadors in Russia. Lynn Tracy, will soon complete his mission, American diplomatic mission in Moscow said. The exact date of termination of powers is not given. Tracy held the US Ambassador to Russia since January 2023. She was nominated even under Joe Bayden, and Donald Trump's administration did not remember her.
In February, Kommersant learned the name of the new diplomatic representative. According to the publication, this is Richard Norland, who used to be the US Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Georgia.
However, it is suspected that the future Ambassador will be in the previous government, which is commented by Professor of Political Science and International Relations of Tennessee Andrei Korobkov:
-The Trump is that Trump is changing very strongly in all the Foreign Ministry's employees, including the upper elite Echelon, and of course, in the case of Russia, a person will be appointed as the person who has trust from Trump, who is ready to conduct his lineage, completely different from Biden's government. A lot of things will say a lot, this is a professional diplomat or it will be a political appointment, who will be friendly to Trump. There are three lines why US ambassadors are prescribed, first a symbolic figure, such as Kennedy's daughter, who is considered almost blue blood of the US, she is a ambassador in Japan, the second political appointment, close to the president, or the president pays some previous gestures, or the third expert. In the United States, about 30-40% of ambassadors are political appointments, in the case of Russia, according to the regulations, these are senior diplomats, experts, but, with Trump's relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, very bad, and at the same time his desire for relations completely reviewed with Russia.
– How will the relationship between Russia and the United States change this issue?
-The change is a change in relations with Russia for Trump as a strategy, he clearly endures the focus of American politics from Europe to the Pacific basin, partly to the Middle East, so he needs a person who will follow a new course, in particular trying to set a dialogue with Russia and try to prevent the formation of a Russian type.
Earlier, Russian Ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, talked about his meeting with President Donald Trump, Interfax's report. She passed after the ceremony to present charitable letters in the White House. According to the diplomat, at the meeting, he promised to the US President that the Embassy would do everything to restore the Russian -American relationship and bring them back to a common sense.