The US has not had an ambassador in Moscow since the Ukraine crisis began. Now a new candidate has been proposed, but will he be accepted, asks Dmitri Trenin The absence of a United States ambassador in Moscow ever since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis has been striking. This never happened during the Cold War, when ambassadors were the prime conduits of dialogue between the superpowers. Not so these days. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry have met many times during the past four months, and have spoken even more often. Occasionally, …read more
Source: The Guardian
