In response to American sanctions, Russia introduced 25 US citizens to the “stoplist”, including the wife and daughter of President Joe Biden. The relevant information was published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The list included a number of politicians, researchers of Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Colombian universities, as well as the famous American philosopher and author of the book “The End of History and the Last Man” by Francis Fukuyama, who allowed himself to speak about Russian President Vladimir Putin in negative tones.
It is noteworthy that the former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, as well as the special representative in Eurasian energy, Richard Morningstar, was also in the sanctions list of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Recall that Morningstar, appointed by the ambassador to Baku in June 2012, by the decision of the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, managed to not only be in the center of a number of loud scandals in just two years, but also to spoil relations with the Azerbaijani authorities.
In particular, Morningstar was remembered by a scandalous interview with the opposition journalist Khadija Ismailova, in which the ambassador almost openly threatened Azerbaijan “Euromaidan”, and also criticized the situation with human rights.
The American diplomat and a super -chickety “lobbing” was noted: in 2014, when a tender was announced for the construction of a section of the Transanatolian gas pipeline connecting Greece and Turkey (the project was estimated at 11.7 billion dollars), Morningstar tried to push the American company claiming to design , delivery and management of the construction of this gas pipeline. And after he did not succeed (the tender was won by the Australian company Australia’s World Parsons) hitherto laconic Richard Morningstar began to talk about Euromaidan and civil society.
, to the posts of the ambassador, Morningstar was also remembered by the organization of the escape from Baku Matanat Azizova, who was under investigation. In addition, the US Ambassador tried in every possible way to take out from the country Yunus at the very moment when the investigators of the Prosecutor General were preparing to interrogate it.
In 2014, as expected, Richard Morningstar left Azerbaijan ahead of schedule and in the next eight years no one in our country of the Scandalist remembered. And now the name of Morningstar surfaced in the sanctions list of Russia. What exactly served as the reason is still unknown.