John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Russia on July 31,2014. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
Llewellyn E. "Tommy" Thompson Jr. was an American diplomat. He served in Sri Lanka,Austria,and for a lengthy period in the Soviet Union,where his tenure saw some of the most significant events of the Cold War. He was a key advisor to President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A 2019 assessment described him as "arguably the most influential figure who ever advised U.S. presidents about policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War."
George Albert Krol is a United States foreign service officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Krol formerly served as United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan. A position he was sworn in to on January 8,2015.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
Malcolm Toon was an American diplomat who served as a Foreign Service Officer in Moscow in the 1950s,1960s,and 1970s,during the Cold War,ultimately becoming the ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Richard Eugene Hoagland is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from 2013-2015. In the summer of 2016,based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman,Jordan,he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia,Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peace-making efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Larry C. Napper served as the United States Ambassador to Latvia from 1995 to 1998 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2004.
Jack Foust Matlock Jr. is an American former ambassador,career Foreign Service Officer,a teacher,a historian,and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War,and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.
John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs,he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from July 3,2008,until January 10,2012,and as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008.
The Embassy of Australia in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of Australia to the Russian Federation. The current head of post and Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation is Graeme Meehan. The embassy serves as the diplomatic mission for Australia to the Russian Federation,Armenia,Belarus,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The chancery is located at 10A/2 Podkolokolny Lane in the Tagansky District of Moscow.
Adrian Anthony Basora is an American diplomat,and former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute researching democratization in the post-Communist states of Europe and Central Asia,and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ian Crawford Kelly is an American retired Foreign Service Officer and Ambassador (ret.) currently serving as the Ambassador in Residence at Northwestern University in Evanston,Illinois. He is an American former statesman and senior foreign service officer who last served as the United States Ambassador to Georgia,from 2015 to 2018. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2010 to 2013. Prior to his ambassadorship,Kelly held a variety of high-level roles at the U.S. State Department,including serving as the department spokesman under Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who serves as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations. He served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations between January 20,2021,and February 24,2021,when Linda Thomas-Greenfield became ambassador. In July 2022,he was announced as the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Nigeria.
The Embassy of the Philippines in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation. Occupied since 1978,it is located on 6/8 Karmanitskiy Lane in the Arbat District of central Moscow,a short walk from the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,and near the former home of Alexander Pushkin and the residence of the Ambassador of the United States to Russia.
Rudolf Vilem Perina was an American diplomat who specialized for more than three decades in European East–West relations during and after the Cold War,and on the Dayton Accords following the dissolution of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. This includes participating in the 1988 Moscow summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev,during the former's first visit to the USSR. He also served as ambassador to the Republic of Moldova,U.S. Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts in the former Soviet Union,Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs in the State Department,director of European and Soviet Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council,and was on the policy planning staff of the State Department under Colin Powell before and after the invasion of Iraq.
Lynne M. Tracy is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Russia,serving since January 2023. She formerly served as the United States ambassador to Armenia from 2019 to 2022.
Richard Townsend Davies was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 1973 to 1978.
Laura Elizabeth Kennedy is a retired United States career diplomat,who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan,U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva,and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Relations between Czechoslovakia and the United States refer to two periods in Czechoslovakia's history. The first being the establishment of Czechoslovakia after its declaration of independence in 1918 from Austria-Hungary initiated by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points following World War I. The second period being the communist era from 1948 when relations were strained,until 1992 when Czechoslovakia split forming the independent nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a result of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
