Lavrov’s T-shirt: “CCCP” for the USSR 👕🇷🇺
In a subtle act of trolling, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska ❄️🇺🇸 on the eve of the US–Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP”, the Russian initials for the USSR.
Once seen in western capitals as a pragmatic and skilled diplomat, the 75-year-old has in recent years mirrored the Kremlin’s radicalised politics, adopting an increasingly combative tone and resorting to trolling and mockery 🎭.
Lavrov’s choice of attire nods to the Kremlin’s long-running narrative: Putin has repeatedly claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” 🤝, denying Ukraine’s legitimacy and territorial integrity while promoting a broader notion of unity with Russia.
Most of Russia’s veteran delegation to Alaska, including Lavrov, began their careers in the Soviet Union 🛠 and have been accused by the Russian opposition of clinging to a Soviet imperialist mentality.
The former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis quipped on X about Lavrov’s clothing choice: “‘Just give us half of Ukraine and we promise we will stop,’ says negotiator wearing USSR sweatshirt.” 🧵😏
Russian fashion bloggers on Telegram were quick to identify the $120 sweatshirt 💵 as the work of Selsovet, a Chelyabinsk-based brand that specialises in “Soviet heritage” clothing.
Lavrov’s antics were the latest in a string of Russian provocations leading up to the summit 🔥, aimed at unsettling Ukraine and its European allies. Earlier, the editor-in-chief of RT, Margarita Simonyan, wrote that the Russian press corps flying to Alaska had been served chicken kyiv cutlets 🍗.
The menu choice was quickly seized upon by other Russian propagandists.
“Putin and Trump should turn Zelenskyy into a chicken kyiv. There’s no shortage of humour in the Kremlin,” wrote the pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov.
Russia’s state press, however, were in a less celebratory mood on arrival at their modest sleeping quarters 🛏 in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, where the summit will take place.
With hotel space taken up by the influx of international media 🎥📰, Russian reporters were put up in the local ice hockey team’s stadium 🏒, which had been converted into a Covid hospital during the pandemic 🦠 and fitted with army beds donated by the Red Cross.
“We are living in Spartan conditions,” one reporter is heard complaining in a clip posted on social media 📹.
#lavrov #alaska #tshirt #ussr #trolling
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In a subtle act of trolling, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska ❄️🇺🇸 on the eve of the US–Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP”, the Russian initials for the USSR.
Once seen in western capitals as a pragmatic and skilled diplomat, the 75-year-old has in recent years mirrored the Kremlin’s radicalised politics, adopting an increasingly combative tone and resorting to trolling and mockery 🎭.
Lavrov’s choice of attire nods to the Kremlin’s long-running narrative: Putin has repeatedly claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” 🤝, denying Ukraine’s legitimacy and territorial integrity while promoting a broader notion of unity with Russia.
Most of Russia’s veteran delegation to Alaska, including Lavrov, began their careers in the Soviet Union 🛠 and have been accused by the Russian opposition of clinging to a Soviet imperialist mentality.
The former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis quipped on X about Lavrov’s clothing choice: “‘Just give us half of Ukraine and we promise we will stop,’ says negotiator wearing USSR sweatshirt.” 🧵😏
Russian fashion bloggers on Telegram were quick to identify the $120 sweatshirt 💵 as the work of Selsovet, a Chelyabinsk-based brand that specialises in “Soviet heritage” clothing.
Lavrov’s antics were the latest in a string of Russian provocations leading up to the summit 🔥, aimed at unsettling Ukraine and its European allies. Earlier, the editor-in-chief of RT, Margarita Simonyan, wrote that the Russian press corps flying to Alaska had been served chicken kyiv cutlets 🍗.
The menu choice was quickly seized upon by other Russian propagandists.
“Putin and Trump should turn Zelenskyy into a chicken kyiv. There’s no shortage of humour in the Kremlin,” wrote the pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov.
Russia’s state press, however, were in a less celebratory mood on arrival at their modest sleeping quarters 🛏 in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, where the summit will take place.
With hotel space taken up by the influx of international media 🎥📰, Russian reporters were put up in the local ice hockey team’s stadium 🏒, which had been converted into a Covid hospital during the pandemic 🦠 and fitted with army beds donated by the Red Cross.
“We are living in Spartan conditions,” one reporter is heard complaining in a clip posted on social media 📹.
#lavrov #alaska #tshirt #ussr #trolling
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