Ex-advisor of Ronald Reagan, who received Russian citizenship, has died

Ex-advisor to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and historian Suzanne Massey, who received Russian citizenship, died at the 95th year of life. This was reported by her representative to RIA Novosti on January 27.

Massie from 1984 to 1988 was Reagan's advisor on the Soviet Union. She was nicknamed "the woman who stopped the Cold War." From 1985 to 1997, she served as a fellow at Harvard's Center for Russian Studies.

Massey participated in the preparation of meetings between Reagan and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva and Reykjavik in 1985-1986. It was Massie taught Reagan in Russian to pronounce the proverb "Trust, but verify".

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