updated Sun. March 5, 2023
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Realnoe vremya
February 27, 2018
We'll note that unlike his predecessor John Tefft, who visited Kazan in 2015, Huntsman had a chance to meet Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. Boring lines of the press release just say that ''the sides discussed the cooperation in the existing Russian-American relations… Rustam MinnikhanovÃâà...
Pravda
September 28, 2017
John Tefft, who served as US Ambassador to Russia for three years, held a farewell dinner in the US Embassy on September 27. ... During his farewell dinner, John Tefft promised to return to Russia, at least for the sake of meat dumplings - a traditional meal of Russian cuisine commonly known in Russia asÃâà...
Sputnik International
September 28, 2017
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US anti-Russia sanctions have failed to result in the fundamental change of the situation in eastern Ukraine, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper published in Russian. Answering the question, whether he thought the USÃâà...
StopFake.org
September 28, 2017
By John F. Tefft, for The Moscow Times. When I first joined the diplomatic service, working on the Soviet desk in the 1980s, our relationship with Russia was at a low point. The Soviet Union had just shot down a Korean Airliner, with almost 100 Americans including a Congressman on board. There was a lotÃâà...
The Moscow Times
September 27, 2017
When I first joined the diplomatic service, working on the Soviet desk in the 1980s, our relationship with Russia was at a low point. The Soviet Union had just shot down a Korean Airliner, with almost 100 Americans including a Congressman on board. There was a lot of anger in America. Today, as I prepareÃâà...
Voice of America
September 13, 2017
The outgoing United States Ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, just weeks before his departure, has said he has mixed feelings about the state of the U.S.-Russia relationship but holds out hope for progress. In a joint interview in Moscow with the Russian Services of VOA and RFE/RL, Tefft expressedÃâà...
Voice of America
September 13, 2017
John Tefft, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Russia, says he believes Russia engaged in cyberattacks during the 2016 presidential election. Tefft, a career foreign service officer who came out of retirement in 2014 to serve as U.S. ambassador to Russia, is being succeeded by Trump appointee JonÃâà...
Voice of America
September 6, 2017
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, has defended the expulsion of Russian diplomats from seized consular property in the United States amid an increasing strain in diplomatic ties. In a joint interview Wednesday in Moscow with the Russian services of VOA News and Radio FreeÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 6, 2017
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, has sought to clarify the circumstances surrounding a diplomatic tit-for-tat between Washington and Moscow. Speaking during a joint interview by RFE/RL and VOA in Moscow on September 6, Tefft said that U.S. officials did not "put undue pressure" on anyoneÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 28, 2017
The newly appointed Russian ambassador to the United States has met with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Russia to discuss ties, Russia's Foreign Ministry says. Anatoly Antonov and John Tefft also exchanged views on “a number of international problems," the ministry said on August 28. The meetingÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 23, 2017
“This is simply because we've been told by the [Russian] Foreign Ministry that we have to cut down our staff to 455,” Ambassador John Tefft told Russian state-run TASS news agency in an interview published August 23. “It's all the processing. It's the security. And so the only way we can do this -- it's notÃâà...
TASS
July 28, 2017
MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft has expressed strong disappointment and protest with the Russian Foreign Ministry's decision to reduce the number of US diplomats and restrict access of the diplomatic mission to its warehouses and the compound, the US Embassy's pressÃâà...
RT
July 4, 2017
“Ambassador John Tefft and his spouse Mariella will leave the office this fall,” Deputy Chief of Mission Lynne Tracy said. “There's a difficult period between the two countries now, but I've been lucky to work alongside Ambassador Tefft, and I've been seeing every moment an unexcelled professional, whoÃâà...
