"Ned Price, who has reinstated daily briefings and press access to the Secretary of State's travels, is leaving the podium later this month," the statement said.

It is noted that Price will move to a political position, directly accountable to the head of the State Department, Anthony Blinken.

On January 30, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the new US Ambassador to Moscow, Lynn Tracy, handed copies of her credentials to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.