Go to mediabankWASHINGTON, Sep 14 head of the diplomatic mission in Moscow and hope that her appointment will take place soon, CNN told CNN, citing diplomatic sources. «The Joe Biden administration hopes to soon appoint her to replace John Sullivan, who stepped down earlier this month. and the official appointment will depend on whether Russia agrees to accept her as an ambassador at a time of great tension between Washington and Moscow,» the channel quoted one of its interlocutors as saying. The US State Department has not yet officially commented on this information. The previous American ambassador in Russia, John Sullivan worked in the position for three years, but recently completed work ahead of schedule due to personal circumstances. Lynn Tracy is in the diplomatic service be since 1994. In 1995-1997 she worked in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, in 1997-2000 in Kyrgyzstan. After that, Tracy continued to work in the Office of the Special Representative for the Newly Independent States, and in 2001-2002 she served as Desk Officer for Georgia. In 2004, she returned to the embassy in Kazakhstan, and from 2006 to 2009 she worked as a consul in Peshawar, Pakistan, where she was assassinated on 26 August 2008. At the end of the trip, she was awarded the «For Heroism» award. In 2010-2011, she served as Deputy US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, then — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as deputy head of the diplomatic mission in Moscow, after which she held the position of senior adviser on Russian affairs at the State Department. Since 2019, he has been the US Ambassador to Armenia.
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