Quote Originally Posted by zxc View Post
It sounds to me like the American ambassador to Moscow speaks Russian fairly well, but with a thick American accent (his Russian isn't perfect, he has a tendency to directly translate English into Russian, which doesn't always make sense, but overall he gets his point across).
His accent doesn't sound too bad to me, I agree it's strong, but I've heard much worse)) But I think he messed up his perfective and imperfective verbs a tad))) I'd be happy to speak as well as he does!