The US Ambassador to Russia unexpectedly left his post, citing retirement

US Embassy in Russia reports that US Ambassador to the Russian Federation John J. Sullivan completed his work as US Ambassador and left Moscow on September 4.

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Ambassador Sullivan served in this position for nearly three years.

John Sullivan will complete a forty-year career in public service, during which he served under five US presidents, including the position of US Deputy Secretary of State, senior positions in the US Departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce. It is curious that there was no talk that Sullivan plans to leave his post.

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Until the arrival of Ambassador Sullivan's successor, Elizabeth Rude will serve as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Moscow.

John Sullivan (John Sullivan) was born on November 20, 1959 in Boston (Massachusetts, USA). In 1981, he received a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). In 1985 he graduated from the Columbia University School of Law in New York.

In 1985-1986, Sullivan served on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles cases in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In 1990, he became assistant Supreme Court member David Suter. In 1991-1992, he served as an adviser to Assistant Attorney General John Michael Luttig. During the presidential campaign of 1992, he is among legal advisers at the campaign headquarters of Republican George W. Bush.

In 1993, Sullivan became a partner at Mayer Brown Law Firm in Washington.

In Senate hearings, Sullivan spoke out harshly on the issue of Crimea's reunification with Russia in 2014 and accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Then he said that the United States must "resolutely respond to the threat with all the means available to them." On May 24, 2017, after confirmation by the Senate, Sullivan took office. From April 1 to April 26, 2018, he served as Secretary of State in connection with the resignation of Rex Tillerson. In July 2019, Sullivan led the US delegation to talks with Russia on strategic security.

On 11 on October 2019, the Trump administration announced that the president had nominated Sullivan for the post of United States Ambassador to Russia.

In December 2019, Sullivan was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

He is married with three children in his family. John Sullivan is the nephew of William Sullivan, the last US ambassador to Iran (1977-1979 years).

Elizabeth Roode, who will act as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Moscow, speaks Russian, French, German, Pashto, Dari and Georgian, reports RIA News.

Over the years, she worked at the Bureau for International Security and Nonproliferation, the US delegation to international organizations in Vienna (Austria), the US Consulate General in Düsseldorf (Germany), etc.

She was the US State Department's representative to the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan, and the US Deputy Special Representative for the Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistrian conflicts.

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In June 2022, she assumed the duties of the Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the US Embassy in Russia.

On August 3, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Elizabeth Roode for the position of U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan. Her candidacy is under consideration by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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