![]() ![]() Tours in Uzbekistan and Moscow in the 1990s and Ukraine in 2001 solidified her expertise on Russia and its former provinces after the Soviet Union’s collapse, and she rose to the top of her profession as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan in 2005, Armenia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2016. One of her first assignments was Somalia, an impoverished, corrupt, and often dangerous failed state, but she did well. The author writes about the sexism she experienced in the service, noting how “pale, male, and Yale” was a popular profile of its employees. ![]() After graduation, a Russian-language program in Moscow cemented her fascination with world affairs, and she joined the Foreign Service in 1986. As hardworking as her parents, Marie excelled in high school and, later, at Princeton. in 1962, and raised a family on the small salary of a boarding school teacher. As immigrants in Canada, they met and married in 1958, moved to the U.S. Her father left the Soviet Union as a child, and her mother survived World War II in Nazi Germany. 1958) chronicles her career in the Foreign Service, where she has served in a variety of posts, with an emphasis on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. A veteran Foreign Service officer tells all. ![]()
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