US President Joe Biden nominated veteran diplomat Lynne Tracy Tuesday to serve as ambassador to Russia, after the current envoy John Sullivan retired.
Formerly the number two diplomat in the US mission in Russia, Tracy is currently the US ambassador to Armenia, and her appointment to the Moscow post is contingent on approval by the US Senate.
She majored in Russian studies at the University of Georgia and earned a law degree at the University of Akron, Ohio in 1994.
After joining the State Department she has served in missions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.
She also served as the top US diplomat in Peshawar, Pakistan from 2006 to 2009 where she survived an attack by gunmen on her official car.
From 2014 to 2017 Tracy was deputy chief of mission in Moscow.
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