Michael McFaul
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Michael Anthony McFaul is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.
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President Barack Obama is briefed during a flight to Moscow, 2009
Barack Obama, Joe Biden and McFaul with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, March 20, 2009
McFaul (end on right) at meeting between U.S. vice president Joe Biden and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia in March 2011
Secretary of State John Kerry and McFaul tour Red Square in Moscow on May 7, 2013
A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. policy toward Putin's Russia on June 14, 2016. McFaul testified as Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, center left, sat behind him.In their own words 10
We're not good at point predictions. But we are pretty good at some long-term trajectory things, over hundreds of years, right?
"Putin's Russia today - Former Ambassador Michael McFaul on "Intelligence Matters"" in CBS (27 October 2021)
We got to get our democracy in order at home, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Two wrongs do not make a right.
"Former U.S. Ambassador To Russia On The Arrest Of Russian Opposition Leader" in NPR (18 January 2021)
It’s incumbent upon all people to believe in the facts and to keep pushing it. You can’t constrain free speech, but you can speak more loudly about what is factual.
"An Interview with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul" in LA Times High School Insider (30 August 2019)
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Michael Anthony McFaul is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul became the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University in 1995, where he is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position, McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs, where he was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy.
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