Decried the West qua West, or the West led by the oh-so-Progressive Biden administration? The former makes the gentleman a pointed insult, the latter a most delicate compliment.
[IsraelTimes] Alexander Darchiev, 64, said to have green light from Washington, where he served 2 spells in embassy; he’s known in recent years for strong public denunciations of United States, WestRussian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on Thursday to lead a rapprochement that has stunned Ukraine and European countries.
The Foreign Ministry said last week Washington had given it the green light at a meeting between Russian and US officials in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to appoint Darchiev, who now serves as head of the ministry’s North America department.
The six-hour meeting in Istanbul last Thursday, where the delegations worked to try to restore the normal functioning of their embassies after years of tit-for-tat expulsions, was the latest sign of a thaw between the two countries.
US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat
The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
has upended previous policy on the war in Ukraine, opening up bilateral talks with Moscow and pausing military aid to Kyiv after clashing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House last week.
Russia has had no ambassador in Washington since October when the previous envoy, Anatoly Antonov, left his post.
Darchiev, 64, has served two long spells in Russia’s Washington embassy and was ambassador to Canada from 2014 to 2021. Like other senior Russian diplomats, he has been known in recent years for strong public denunciations of the United States and the West.
"Apparently, Washington will need time to get used to the fact that its hegemony is in the past, and will have to reckon with the national interests of Russia, which has its own sphere of influence and responsibility," he told Interfax in March 2022.
In a memoir, John J. Sullivan, a US ambassador to Russia under then-president Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
, described Darchiev becoming "visibly enraged" during a meeting at the foreign ministry in Moscow, over remarks by Biden, who called Putin a war criminal.
"When I finished, he started screaming at me in a profane tirade that I should not come into the ministry with such a belligerent attitude," Sullivan wrote. Sullivan declined further comment on the events when contacted by Rooters, and Rooters was not able to reach Darchiev for his side of the story.
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