A former U.S. diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia was arrested as part of a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation on charges of secretly serving as an agent of the Cuban government. ABC News reported in more detail. 73-year-old Manuel Rocha was arrested in Miami (Florida) on December 2...
President Biden appointed Lynn Tracy as ambassador to the Russian Federation on September 20 to resolve tensions between the United States and Russia amid the war in Ukraine, The Hill reports. Previously, Tracy has been the US Ambassador to Armenia since 2019. Before that, she was...
On December 15, the US Congress for the first time in 12 years approved the United States Ambassador to Belarus. It was the American diplomat Julie Fisher. Writes about this "European truth". Fischer is a career diplomat for the United States Department of State. Prior to her appointment, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for ...
The White House sent the nomination of Keith Dayton for the post of US Ambassador to Ukraine to the US Senate for consideration. This is stated in a statement from the press service, writes Voice of America. Earlier, President Trump nominated retired Lieutenant General Keith Dayton for the post of US Ambassador to...
Acting US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor is due to leave his post and return to Washington on January 2, Voice of America reports, citing NBC. Reacting to this message, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez wrote a formal request to the US Secretary of State. According to the senator, the review...
The Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives held a second public hearing as part of an investigation into the possible impeachment of US President Donald Trump. The hearings were open to the public and were broadcast live by several American television channels. Today the focus is on the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, ex-ambassador ...
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch spoke on Friday at closed hearings in Congress as part of the investigation into the scandal, which in the American capital was nicknamed “Ukrainegate”. Even on Friday morning in Washington they were not sure that Yovanovitch would finally make up his mind...
The US State Department has proposed to send a chargé d'Affaires to Ukraine, since a new ambassador has not yet been appointed to replace the outgoing Marie Yovanovitch. The position was offered to William Taylor, who was the US ambassador to Ukraine more than 10 years ago. The Chargé d'Affaires appears to be ...
Ukraine's attorney general said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by former US vice president and now US presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son, despite multiple accusations by President Donald Trump's lawyer. Bloomberg writes about this. ...
The United States Department of State has officially confirmed that US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will early terminate her powers in May 2019 after three years of work in Kiev. The official comment says that this decision was made as part of a planned rotation, which ...