Review: The rise and fall of Marie Yovanovitch, ambassador to Ukraine
there was the Ukraine impeachment scandal. If the war is a tale of heroism, the scandal was a tawdry mess — in which a newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky was shaken down by President Donald Trump for political dirt in exchange for the weapons that we see now he needed desperately to fight Russia.The noblest characters in the impeachment melodrama were the State Department Foreign Service officers who tried to represent the United States honorably in Ukraine.
When Rep. Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, read that snide tweet to Yovanovitch, she somehow managed a self-effacing,Yovanovitch has now written a subtle and engaging memoir, “.” Though it converges on her unwanted moment of national notoriety, the freshest part is the narrative of her rise through the Foreign Service to become America’s ambassador in Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and finally Ukraine.
Yovanovitch describes herself as “an introvert by nature,” and living under the State Department canopy seemed to suit her. A single woman raised by Russian immigrant parents, she spent the later years of her career accompanied by her mother, “Mama,” who was as unflappable as her ambassador daughter.
During a first tour in Kyiv as deputy chief of mission, she encountered another set of “newly minted oligarchs” and the government’s system of “telephone justice,” whereby politicians “picked up the phone and told prosecutors and judges what to do.” That initial assignment forearmed her for what she would encounter later when she returned as ambassador in 2016.
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