From 24 to 26 May 2016 Vladivostok will visit the head of the political department of the US Embassy in Moscow Anthony Godfrey, informs «Pacific Russia».
The American Embassy is responsible for the collection and analysis of information about the Russian political landscape, personal contact with the leaders of the non-systemic opposition.
Prior to his appointment in Moscow E. Godfrey worked in Ankara and Baghdad, then worked out the US policy on Iraq, some time was the head of a department of the national security apparatus of the White House.
Separately it is necessary to stay in the service of American in Armenia, where he held the position of deputy. Ambassador (from 2004 to 2007.). According to Armenian media, E. Godfrey tried to counteract the Armenian authorities about the deepening investment cooperation between Yerevan and Tehran, and, more importantly, he taught them how to hold elections.
Another interesting American service place is Belarus, where he was seen in open support of the Belarusian opposition, and his colleague, a Howard Timothy Noel, a career CIA officer, was deported from Belarus after he was arrested his agent from among the residents of Minsk, on strange coincidence was the source of opposition party activist.
Finally it may be noted E. Godfrey service as part of the OSCE mission in Chechnya and in the inspection of the US Department of Defense on nuclear disarmament. Getting Started in Moscow, the American took a course on the development of relations with the Russian opposition, I began to search for new leaders of the protest.
American has tried to visit the Maritime Territory in March 2016, but then his visit did not take place, possibly because of the activity of the patriotic movements of the Primorsky Territory, intending to have a «warm» welcome foreigners and disrupt his meetings with local opposition, political analysts, the State Department’s alumni programs.
outrage is a fact unprecedented attention to Primorye from US «partners», they show from the beginning of 2016. In February 2016, Primor, visited the deputy US ambassador in Moscow, Lynn Tracy. The American met with Primorye political scientists, representatives of universities and youth. During the meeting discussed issues related to the upcoming elections, especially an American interested in the potential of regional opposition movements.
In March 2016 she worked in Vladivostok delegation staff of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the device as part of Purser Benjamin Rader and John. It is noteworthy that B. Purser is a former employee of the US military intelligence. The program was full of visitors and meetings with experts — political scientists, economists.
What is so attractive to the United States in the Primorsky Krai, why instead of tourists and investors to the US Consulate General in Vladivostok organizes visits by US officials with dubious biography? The forthcoming visit of E. Godfrey also held meetings with the EXPERT-political scientists, representatives of religions, and of course with the leaders of the political structures, first of all, the opposition direction. Diplomat travel program illustrates the basic direction of the US State Department to study potential points of vulnerability in the social and political spheres of the Russian society, for the prediction of protest activity and the planning of the «orange revolution.»
According to experts of the public movement «Antimaydan» visits of senior American officials in the Russian Federation subjects are not accidental, it is the implementation of the provisions of the regional strategy, practiced by the current head of the US Embassy in Moscow DF Tefft, who is a specialist on the inspiration of the «orange revolution» and work with the opposition in the former Soviet space. The strategy made a bet on the regional opposition figures and their movements controlled, which ultimately can ensure the implementation of Washington’s plans in a particular region of Russia. During the visits, the American diplomats assess functionaries from the opposition for future decision-making about their possible financial and advisory support.