One minor little comment about the Peregruzka button

[jmowreader]

As we all know. Secretary of State Clinton gave her Russian counterpart a special gift on her trip to Moscow--a "reset" button to be used to "reset" the US-Russian relationship--that had the Russian word for "overloaded" on it instead of the Russian word for "reset."

How come no one but me has noticed the Russian word "peregruzka" is written in the wrong alphabet? I swear, half the fucking government was once devoted to watching the Soviets, some of those people still work there, and NONE of them noticed the word wasn't written in Cyrillic letters?

[eleny]

1. I can't help but wonder if Condi Rice had a laugh over this

[polichick]

2. It does seem odd that the State Dept. couldn't come up with a Russian speaker to get this right.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Maybe they needed to purge all of 'sovietologist' Rice's people from the Dept. nt

[CJCRANE]

3. I hope it was a deliberate mistake

designed to get some press coverage.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Probably the same protocol chief that chose the DVDs for Gordon Brown. nt

[Captain Hilts]

4. I did. I can read Russian fairly well, but not speak it. Russia was de-emphasized...

for a long time - and study of Russia. Then you had a dinosauer - Rice running the State Dept. She said "the only thing the Russians understand is force." THAT kind of attitude.

They need to be weeding these folks out. It will take time.

Probably the same protocol chief who chose the DVDs for Gordon Brown.

[AngryAmish]

7. I want the amnesty back so I can change my name to "Peregruzka"