Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed senior veteran diplomat Alexander Darchiev as ambassador to the United States on Thursday, to lead a rapprochement with that has stunned Ukraine and Washington's European allies.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin 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.

Dictator Vladimir Putin has appointed diplomat Alexander Darchiev as the Russian ambassador to the United States of America, the Kremlin’s official website reports. "Appoint Alexander Nikitovich Darchiev as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America and the Permanent Observer of the

Russia President Vladimir Putin has appointed diplomat Alexander Darchiev as the country’s ambassador to the United States of America. This was disclosed in a statement on the Kremlin’s official website on Thursday.