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In March 2020, the U.S. Consulate General Vladivostok suspended operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When my team and I departed, it was our sole wish to return to Vladivostok as soon as practical, to continue the work of providing services to U.S. and Russian citizens in Russia’s Far East and to strengthen the people-to-people ties – in business, education, culture, sports, and social life – between our two countries.
While it gives me great joy to see signs of progress in the fight against COVID-19 both in Russia and the United States, I regret to report that the U.S. Consulate General Vladivostok will not resume its operations in the near term due to critically low staffing of the United States Mission to Russia.
December 18, 2020
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA: I’m going to be brief in my questions, to give you some time to you to respond. And I will start with the news of the last days: cyber attacks allegedly conducted by Russians on major infrastructure, objects, and networks in America. And I read and saw a lot of comments of professionals who elaborated on the type of response: political, geopolitical, military even, [as] an attack on infrastructure is considered to be, and of course my heart is not feeling easy when I hear such things.
The first question is, how to be sure that Russians are behind these attacks, because they say it might be Russians, might be the Iranians, might be the Chinese. Because of the consequences of the response to the attackers, I think it is so important to be more than 100% sure that this party is specifically responsible for these attacks. And I want to hear your comments on this new bad news in Russian-American relations.