Reagan’s ex-adviser, nicknamed in the West “the woman who put an end to the Cold War,” received a Russian passport

Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to Suzanne Massy, ​​a former adviser to ex-US President Ronald Reagan.

Earlier, Massy asked Putin to grant her Russian citizenship, explaining that this way she would be able to work more effectively in Russia.

“I have devoted many years of my life to bringing the peoples of the United States and Russia closer together. Today it is extremely important for me to stay in Russia in order to continue my work. If President Vladimir Vladimirovich finds an opportunity to grant me Russian citizenship, it will be an honor for me, ”Massy said on the air of NTV. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Livadia Club in Crimea, Massy told reporters that she needed citizenship to write a book in Russia.

Suzanne Massie is an American writer and author of The Land of the Firebird. In the 1980s, she was Reagan’s informal adviser on the Soviet Union.

Massy helped prepare the Reagan-Gorbachev meetings in Geneva and Reykjavik and is believed to have played a major role in the normalization of Soviet-American relations. It was she who taught Reagan to pronounce in Russian the proverb “Trust, but verify”, which he later used more than once in negotiations, gave him an Easter egg with the inscription in Russian: “We will not let the world blow up” and persuaded him to watch the film “Moscow Does Not Tear believes. ” In the West, she was called “the woman who ended the Cold War.”