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Overcharging U.S.-Russian Relations

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by  |  on March 10th, 2009  |  0 comments

Last week I mentioned the efforts to reset U.S.-Russian relations and so I’d like to follow up by relating a somewhat amusing incident that happened when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a symbolic reset button. Apparently, the translators at State made a small error in translating “reset” into Russian, using the Russian word for “overcharged” instead. This video from MSNBC has the details on this minor, if amusing, diplomatic faux pas:

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