Sergey Kislyak
Role
Russian Ambassador to the United States (2008-2017); central figure in scrutiny of Trump campaign and transition contacts with Russia
Background
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak is a Russian diplomat and politician who served as Russia’s Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2017. Kislyak became a central figure in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election through his contacts with Trump campaign and transition officials, while he publicly denied that Russia had interfered. On December 29, 2016, the day the Barack Obama administration announced new sanctions on Russia for election interference, Kislyak and incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn exchanged calls and messages that touched on the sanctions; Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about those contacts and resigned in February 2017. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation after it emerged that he had not disclosed two 2016 meetings with Kislyak.
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