{"id":434573,"date":"2021-04-20T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434573"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:38:30","slug":"american-ambassador-to-russia-john-sullivan-returning-to-washington-as-tensions-heighten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-ambassador-to-russia-john-sullivan-returning-to-washington-as-tensions-heighten\/","title":{"rendered":"American Ambassador To Russia John Sullivan Returning To Washington As Tensions Heighten"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-ambassador-to-russia-john-sullivan-returning-to-washington-as-tensions-heighten%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\"><\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>United States Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said Tuesday that he was returning to Washington for \u201cconsultations\u201d with top American officials as tensions increase between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The former deputy secretary of state and appointee of former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.usembassy.gov\/ambassador-sullivan-is-returning-to-the-united-states-for-consultations-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> that \u201cit is important for me to speak directly with my new colleagues in the Biden administration in Washington about the current state of bilateral relations between the U.S. and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan added that he was returning to see his family, and that he would \u201creturn to Moscow in the coming weeks before any meeting\u201d between President Joe Biden and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s return follows the Biden administration\u2019s enforcement of an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/joe-biden-sanctions-russia-putin-solarwinds-hack-department-treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">array of sanctions<\/a> against the Russian government and expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats. The U.S. actions were a retaliation for Moscow\u2019s attempts to interfere in American elections, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/24\/solarwinds-government-hack-office-of-personnel-management-cybersecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SolarWinds hack<\/a>, occupation of Crimea and other autocratic actions.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/antony-blinken-jens-stoltenberg-vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Russia Sends Tens Of Thousands Of Troops To Ukrainian Border)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7148628\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7148628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia President Vladimir Putin chairs a video meeting of the Pobeda organizing committee on July 2, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin\/Sputnik\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In response, Moscow <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/russia-to-expel-american-diplomats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expelled<\/a> 10 American officials and said that another eight \u2013 including Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas \u2013 would be barred from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan was not one of those expelled or barred entry, but was instead \u201cadvised\u201d by the Kremlin to return home, which Axios first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/john-sullivan-ambassador-russia-sanctions-5215f137-c473-42f8-a6ac-a49cf5b1f4b4.html\">reported<\/a>. Sullivan initially refused to leave, saying that he would only do so if Putin forced him.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has also spoken out against Moscow\u2019s treatment of Alexi Navalny, a political opponent of Putin whose health has deteriorated after beginning a hunger strike to protest his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/25\/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-prison-camp-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">treatment while in prison<\/a>. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2021\/04\/18\/navalny-russian-consequences-jake-sullivan-intv-bash-sotu-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Sunday<\/a> that Russia will face \u201cconsequences\u201d if Navalny dies.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said Tuesday that he was returning to Washington for \u201cconsultations\u201d with top American officials as tensions increase between the two countries. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}