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Alexander "Sasha" Kasanoff has been appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Balkans as well as for Press and Public Diplomacy at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
The State Department said he will be the successor to Gabriel Escobar, who has finished his term.
He previously served as Executive Assistant to former Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs John Bass.
Sasha has served overseas in Ireland, Turkmenistan, Chile and Ukraine. He received the James Clement Dunn Award for excellence for his work as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev during the Maidan Revolution and Russia's subsequent occupation of Ukraine.