Who is to Russia

John Huntsman , who, apparently, will become a new ambassador in Moscow, began to make a career even under Bush Sr.: in 1992, at the age of 33, he left the US Ambassador to Singapore. In 2004, he was elected Governor of Utah, and his governorship is considered extremely successful in economic terms. Until 2007, he owned a family business - a world -class chemical company Huntsman Corporation. In 2009, President Obama appointed him an ambassador to China. In 2012, Huntsman decided to experience fate as a presidential candidate, but he got off the distance early and supported his fellow countryman and co-religionist-Mormon Mitta Romny. Nevertheless, he remained in the clip of President-Democrat and was seen as a candidate for the post of Secretary of State in the second administration of Obama. Huntsman's name was also listed in the short list of candidates for the same post compiled by Trump's advisers, then in the list of candidates for the position of the first deputy of the Secretary of State.

The position of special assistant to the president in Russia in the National Security Council of the United States is proposed to take on Fiona Hil L, the author of the book (together with Clifford Gaddy, who caught Putin on plagiarism in the dissertation) about the Russian president - Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin ("Putin is an operative in the Kremlin"). True, Hill is still in his office at Brookings Institute, as she said NT, where he heads the US Center and Europe. Hill grew up in the UK, received PhD in Harvard University of the University of Harvard, she is a student of the famous historian Richard Pipe, who was extremely skeptical of the possibilities of democracy in Russia. Hill is customary to attribute to pragmatists. During the time of George Bush Jr., she worked (in 2006-2009) in the National Intelligence Council-the coordinating body, where professors-specialists in specific regions and countries are traditionally invited. Fiona Hill defends the position that relations with Russia should be based on pragmatic considerations: normal relations with Putin are more profitable than confrontation, and therefore do not impose the values ​​of Western democracy, which the Russian president and his people are quite alien. Will Hill be able to convey to Trump at least a small fraction of his knowledge, his understanding of the motives of the behavior of Moscow, time will tell.

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