Russian President Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin’s people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention.
Associated Press: Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, listens as she testifies during the House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21, 2019.
