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Infiltration. Reads like Robert Ludlum double agent spook.
Marie Yovanovitch is the daughter of Mikhail Yovanovitch and Nadia (Theokritoff) Yovanovitch,[12] who fled the Soviet Union and later the Nazis.[3] She was born in Canada, moved to Connecticut at age three, and became a naturalized American citizen at age eighteen. She grew up speaking Russian.[3]
Yovanovitch graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut in 1976; her parents were longtime foreign language teachers at the school.[13] Yovanovitch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and Russian studies from Princeton University in 1980.[14] As part of her degree, Yovanovitch completed a 94-page long senior thesis titled "The Excommunication of Tolstoy. A Personal and Political Event."[15] She studied at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow (1980) and was awarded a Master of Science degree from the National Defense University's National War College in 2001