Michael Anthony McFaul was born on October 1,1963 and is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.
18 Facts About Michael McFaul
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Michael McFaul is a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Michael McFaul is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post.
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Michael McFaul wrote his dissertation on US and Soviet intervention in revolutionary movements in southern Africa.
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Michael McFaul received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University during the university's fall commencement in 2015.
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In 2009, Michael McFaul joined the Barack Obama administration as a senior adviser in Washington, DC, where he was the architect of the so-called "Russian reset" policy.
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In November 2011, Obama nominated Michael McFaul to be the 7th post-Soviet United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
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Michael McFaul became the first non-career diplomat to be the US ambassador to Russia.
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Michael McFaul arrived in Russia just as huge protests were erupting over Vladimir Putin's resumption of the presidency.
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On January 17,2012, soon after Michael McFaul was appointed the new United States Ambassador to Russia and arrived in Moscow to assume his post, opposition politicians and civil activists visited the Embassy of the United States in Moscow.
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The visitors to Michael McFaul included Yevgeniya Chirikova, Boris Nemtsov, Lev Ponomarev, Sergey Mitrokhin, Oksana Dmitriyeva, Lilia Shibanova.
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Reaction to the visit was mixed: then president Dmitry Medvedev, in his public comments at Moscow State University, largely exonerated Michael McFaul by saying that meeting with opposition figures was a routine occurrence, although he warned the new US ambassador that he was on Russian soil and should respect Russian political sensibilities.
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Michael McFaul announced his resignation as ambassador to Russia on February 4,2014, effective after the Sochi Olympics.
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Michael McFaul returned to Stanford as a professor of political science.
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Michael McFaul became a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Michael McFaul debated the Russian invasion with John Mearsheimer in May 2022.
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Michael McFaul has taken a position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine identifying Putin as a culprit in conducting the invasion of Ukraine against the position of Mearsheimer that Putin is pursuing a realist geopolitical plan to secure Russian national interests in the presence of perceived threats from an expanding NATO.
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Michael McFaul was already in 2011 the author of more than 20 books, amongst which are:.