George Kennan.Containment was coined by George Kennan, one of our few Russian experts and serves as an ambassador to Russia. He looks at the problem with the Soviet Union and writes the Long Telegram and said the soviets will only understand force, but we don't have to go to war and we should focus on containing them. He stated that we have a vital and peripheral areas and that we just have to keep them from spreading to our vital areas of interest (Western and Eastern Hemisphere and Japan). In order to contain the Soviet Union, we needed military alliances, military preparedness and he recommends foreign aid.
Then, Russia was part of the Soviet Union. The US Ambassador to the Soviet Union was Jacob D. Beam.
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak is the Ambassador to the US for Russia.
There is an American ambassador to Russia. The current ambassador is John Beyrle. Evidently no American can be a Russian ambassador to other countries.
Eklil Ahmad Hakimi is the Ambassador to the US for Afghanistan.
Mohamed Tawfik is the Ambassador to the US for Egypt.
Josko Paro is the Ambassador to the US for Croatia.
Tatoul Markarian is the Ambassador to the US for Armenia.
Peter Taksoe-Jensen is the Ambassador to the US for Denmark.
Hans Peter Manz is the Ambassador to the US for Austria.
Hersey Kyota is the Ambassador to the US for Palau.
Jan Jozef Matthysen is the Ambassador to the US for Belgium.
Cyrille Segbe Oguin is the Ambassador to the US for Benin.
Mahamat Nasser Hassane is the Ambassador to the US for Chad.