WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will nominate profession diplomat Lynne Tracy, at the moment the U.S. ambassador to Armenia, as ambassador to Russia, the White Home mentioned on Tuesday.
The submit in Russia has been vacant since Sept. 4, when envoy John Sullivan concluded his tenure there amid hovering bilateral tensions as a result of Moscow’s warfare in Ukraine.
Tracy was deputy chief of mission on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 2014 to 2017.
Earlier than being sworn in as ambassador to Yerevan in 2019, she served as senior adviser for Russia affairs within the State Division’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.