RUSSIA - May 1 - US Ambassador Nominated.US Pres. Bush nominates Alexander Vershbow Alexander "Sandy" Vershbow was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School before moving on to Yale College, from which he graduated in 1974. , NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. ambassador, as US Ambassador to Moscow, keeping an important member of Pres. Clinton's team on board. (Vershbow, 48, is a Russia specialist and a career Foreign Service member. He is fluent fluent /flu·ent/ (floo´int) flowing effortlessly; said of speech. in Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. and has headed the Soviet desk at the State Department and the National Security Council. He first served at the US Embassy in Moscow 20 years ago. Vershbow, who joined the Foreign Service in 1977, has been US ambassador to the NATO for three years. Before that, he was Clinton's special assistant for Russian and European affairs). |
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