Moscow, Russia - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Moscow, Russia Index / Locations Transcripts Macon Phillips ...Frantz had put out a top ten lies from Moscow that got a lot of pickup, I think... Scott Gration ...helped me, brought me over to Russia, Moscow , where we were able to address th... ...the outside ring and having meetings in Moscow , and Copenhagen, and Paris, an... Jay Carney ...Union, and I ended up being sent to Moscow . I was in Moscow for three year... ...ended up being sent to Moscow. I was in Moscow for three years during the collapse o... ...the independent press. He's living in Moscow . I don't think really you need t... Tommy Vietor ...didn't go on that one. I never went to Moscow . My first trip was the NATO summit. I... Mara Rudman ...was just about to fly from Jerusalem to Moscow for Moscow's meeting of the Quartet... ...to fly from Jerusalem to Moscow for Moscow 's meeting of the Quartet, which wa... Michael McFaul ...winter of 1985, when I was studying in Moscow . I'd studied there, in Leningrad, i... ...thing; literally took over the KGB of Moscow in 1991. But as I was going out tha... ...values at the same time; engage with Moscow , don't throw the Georgians an... ...I fought like hell to get a summit in Moscow in July 2009 as another action-forcin... ...to sign this thing when you get to Moscow and that's the reason you're going t... ...and that's the reason you're going to Moscow , then that helps with the rest of th... ...I said that even before I got to Moscow . I told you. The window is going t... ...thought about whether I should go to Moscow as ambassador. We haven't got to tha... ...memos. By the way, I did a couple from Moscow as well. That was kind o... ...gets to the story about me going to Moscow . Honestly, I didn't think we wer... ...a great partner. Hope to see you in Moscow ,” because I'd already been nominate... ...were more attracted to me doing the Moscow job than that Middle East coordinato... ...lot; twice, three times to DC, once to Moscow . He's doing just fine now, but he ca... ...that we decided, Okay, we're going to Moscow . Or at least, we're going to start th... ...to start the process to try to go to Moscow . My last question, because we'r... ...Then, of course, when you get to Moscow in 2012, this is kind of like ... ...way, Dimitry, I'm going to send Mike to Moscow . I hope that's a good idea for you.... ...in 2009. Clinton did it in 2010, in Moscow . It was just not a big deal. It wa... ...at the White House, and everybody in Moscow knew I was close to Obama. But that'... ...tragedy for me is, when I arrived in Moscow , Burns's trip to Moscow had bee... ...I arrived in Moscow, Burns's trip to Moscow had been organized by the embassy an... ...remember very vividly when we went to Moscow in 2009 and we got to the NGO paralle... ...I did it very explicitly; his speech in Moscow , for instance, in 2009. You go bac... ...we talked about your arrival in Moscow , and we talked about the meeting tha... ...you were dealing with on the ground in Moscow ? By way of context, to remind yo... ...The fact that President Obama went to Moscow in 2009 and met with Medvedev and me... ...relations. By the time I got to Moscow , actually even before then, I alread... ...keep marching forward. But as I got to Moscow , I was already at the White Hous... ...time. But doing it as the ambassador in Moscow , that was much more controversia... ...people in the State Department, both in Moscow and back in Washington, that we shoul... ...are invited. Everybody who's anybody in Moscow is there. Putin is the host. This wa... ...that wasn't my first rodeo in Moscow [laughs]. I lived in this country ... ...one time, but I'd never met him in Moscow , because he didn't want to meet wit... ...before in the White House. You're in Moscow . How do you end up refracting th... ...been the way I answered it flying to Moscow as ambassador. Part of the reason the... ...on Russia, but you can just do it from Moscow .” And now we're all used to it, Eva... ...that you hadn't before on your time in Moscow . Whether it's things that you did o... ...way that you look back to your time in Moscow ? I can't believe it's been that lon... ...what I faced when I wrote cables from Moscow saying, “We're not going to be able t... ...realize, a decade after I have left Moscow , that there were bigger forces at pla... Show more... John Brennan ...and the EU were encroaching eastward on Moscow 's traditional areas of oversight an... ...and personal. I made several trips to Moscow . But that was one of the things tha... Robert Gates ...signal, and not just to Syria, but to Moscow and Beijing and Tehran an... William Taylor ...and I had worked together—I met him in Moscow back in the '90s, and we'd stayed i... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health