Senior Advisor for Russia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State may  become new US Ambassador to Armenia

ArmInfo. Senior Advisor  for Russia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State Lynne M. Tracy may  become Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United  States of America to the Republic of Armenia.

As the press service of the White House informs, US President Donald  Trump made the proposal. However the candidacy should be approved by  US Senate.  To note, Ms. Tracy is a career member of the Senior  Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serving as  Senior Advisor for Russia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.  Previously, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy  in Moscow, Russia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia in the  Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State,  Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat,  Turkmenistan, and Principal Officer at the U.S. Embassy Branch Office  in Astana, Kazakhstan. 

Ambassador Richard M. Mills, Jr., a career member of the U.S. Foreign  Service, most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the  U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon from 2012 to 2014.

To note, the incumbent US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills took  the office in the beginning of 2015. He most recently served as the  Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S.  Embassy in Beirut. Mills started  his diplomatic career in 1988, previously he worked in the capitals  of major states - in Paris, London, as well as in Baghdad and  Islamabad, which are of key importance for the US. He is well aware  of the problems of the Soviet Union and Armenia, since at the  beginning of his diplomatic career, during Gorbachev's perestroika  (transition) years, he worked in the department of the Department of  State on the issues of the Soviet Union, and then he headed the  consultative department established on the issues of Armenia and  Azerbaijan.