From buttons to earflaps what gave each other Russia and the US – BBC Russian

• 12 May 2015

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It was not the first time the foreign ministers gave each other vegetables

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has presented come to Sochi US Secretary of State John Kerry Krasnodar tomatoes and potatoes, as well as T-shirts Victory, said the Russian Foreign Ministry .

The head of the State Department in turn gave Russian counterpart a list of citations to Russian media, wrote in “Facebook” the deputy head of the Department of Information and Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

According to Zakharov, these quotes, according to Kerry, “do not reflect the real potential of large-scale Russo American relations. ” The press service of the US State Department found it difficult to answer the question about what citations in question.

” Maria Zakharova possible confused gifts. This is a real gift from Kerry – portfolio, “- wrote later in” Twitter “a representative of the US Embassy in Russia Will Stevens, accompanied by a photo record, which Kerry Lavrov presents a blue package.

BBC Russian Service provides a list of original gifts exchanged between the foreign ministries of the two countries in recent years.

The “overload”

This gift was made against the background of the agreement on the start of the new Russian-American relations, signed by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev

In 2009, amid warming relations between Russia and the United States, Hillary Clinton, then headed the Department of State, presented in a gift Lavrov symbolic red “reset” button.

However, the translation of the word reset to Russian mistake was made – as a result, in the souvenir was engraved the word “overload”.

“That we will not allow us to do,” – he said, then Clinton.

Clinton aides then promised to correct the mistake, Lavrov said that souvenir put on your desktop.

Clinton, in turn, noted that the writing on the “button” on -Custom the truth.

“We have to reboot, and as we reboot, the minister and I have” overwhelmed “the work”, – she said.

Idaho Potatoes

Kerry urged not to look in the potato some symbolic meaning

Three potatoes Kerry Lavrov presented last January at the start of talks in Paris on the occasion of an international conference on Syria.

At the press conference, Kerry said that no symbolic meaning in this there is no present.

“I joked in a conversation with Lavrov before the New Year that will bring it to the next meeting of the potatoes from Idaho. And fulfilled the promise, “- he said.

The answer to this gift, apparently, began tomatoes and potatoes, which gave Kerry Lavrov on Tuesday.

” Lavrov gave Kerry Krasnodar tomatoes and potatoes, which is in the distant kinship with the one at the time he brought American colleague, “- wrote in” Facebook “Zakharov.

Idaho – one of the largest potato producers in the United States.

Pink Ushanka

Pink earflaps Russian Foreign Ministry has presented Jen Psaki

Krasnodar vegetables are not the only answer to the Russian Foreign Ministry on potatoes from Kerry. A year ago, after the meeting on Syria in Paris, the Russian delegation handed a pink fur hat for the State Department representative offices Jen Psaki.

“symmetrical response Russian delegation which was presented at the American potatoes – hats with earflaps forstatedeptspox (the official representative of the US State Department), “- said in a statement the Russian Foreign Ministry on the page in the” Twitter “.

On his page on” Facebook “Office laid out Photos, which is in the header Psaki between Kerry and Lavrov. The photo was all smiles.

The very Psaki then wrote in “Twitter”: “Thank you Mary (Zakharova), my Russian colleagues for what has produced I was the approaching Winter Olympics “.

On the question of a pink hat at the end of March this year, when Psaki spent his last briefing to the State Department representative office before moving to a new position at the White House, she said that the headpiece at her home, and that he will go with her to a new place of work.