FILE PHOTO: U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy speaks with journalists in Moscow, Russia, March 26, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Lynne Tracy, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, will soon leave her post, her embassy said on Thursday, after serving through one of the most tense and difficult periods in relations between Moscow and Washington.
Tracy, a career diplomat, arrived in Moscow in January 2023 and was greeted by protesters chanting anti-U.S. slogans when she went to the Foreign Ministry to present her credentials. Russia had questioned her suitability for the post, suggesting she might feel more at home in a hawkish think-tank.
