The US Senate confirms the appointment of the female ambassador to Russia
The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of a Russian-speaking career diplomat as US ambassador to Moscow amid rising tensions with Russia since the launch of its offensive in Ukraine.
The Senate voted 93 in favor and 2 against the nomination of Lynne Tracy, current US ambassador to Armenia and former number two at the US embassy in Moscow. She is the first woman to assume this strategic position.
Lynne Tracy also served in the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. She was also, from 2006 to 2009, the top American diplomat in the Pakistani city of Peshawar where she survived an attack by gunmen on her staff car.
The confirmation vote took place before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Congress on his first trip abroad since the Russian invasion in February.
