Economics
Trump’s Russia Ambassador Cancels Speech at Event With Sanctioned Oligarch
- Huntsman was listed as speaker at U.S.-Russia business panel
- U.S. embassy encouraging business to attend Putin forum
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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The U.S. ambassador to Moscow is no longer scheduled to make a speech at Russia’s premier economic forum next week where he was to give welcoming remarks at a panel including billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, an oligarch under American sanctions and linked to payments to President Donald Trump’s lawyer.
“While I will not be participating in any panel discussions at SPIEF, I will be meeting as many people as possible to discuss the road ahead,” Ambassador Jon Huntsman said in a video posted in the embassy’s Twitter account, referring to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “Dialogue is our only path to progress.”