Russia was not opposed to the appointment of Lynn Tracy to the US Ambassador to Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved her candidacy for this post, said the deputy head of the department Sergey Ryabkov.
Thus, a woman will be headed by an American diplomatic mission in the Russian capital. Now Lynn Tracy is holding the post of ambassador to Armenia. She knows the Russian language and has already worked in Russia before – from 2014 to 2017 was the deputy US ambassador John Tefft, Russian media write.