Rudolf V. Perina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf V. Perina

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1945

Place of Birth: Tábor, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 14-Jun-2018

Profession: diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Rudolf Vilem Perina (Czech: Rudolf Vilém Perina) (January 3, 1945 – June 14, 2018) was an American diplomat who specialized for more than three decades in European East-West relations during and after the Cold War, and on the Dayton Accords following the dissolution of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
This includes participating in the 1988 Moscow summit meeting between President Reagan and President Mikhail Gorbachev, during the former's first visit to the USSR.
He also served as ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, U.S.
Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts in the former Soviet Union (an ambassador-level position), Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs in the State Department, director of European and Soviet Affairs for the U.S.
National Security Council, and was on the policy planning staff of the State Department under Colin Powell before and after the invasion of Iraq. Following his retirement from the foreign service, Perina served as Chargé d’Affaires at U.S.
embassies including those in Chisinau, Moldova (2006), Yerevan, Armenia (2007), Reykjavik (2010), Prague (2013), and Bratislava, Slovakia (2015).