Lavrov and Kerry also compared the potatoes
The United States Secretary of state John Kerry arrived in Sochi for a meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs powers Sergei Lavrov, where the diplomats exchanged symbolic gifts.

The United States Secretary of state John Kerry arrived in Sochi for a meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs powers Sergei Lavrov, where the diplomats exchanged symbolic gifts.
The national foreign Minister gave a private American worker t-shirt with the symbols of Victory, and even baskets of tomatoes and potatoes. Many tried to find this gesture some hidden meaning.
The gifts exchanged between the formal and informal meetings of heads of state and diplomatic adherents often are conditional. However sometimes donated tomatoes are just donated tomatoes.
Anyway, the visit, the leaders of the United States Department of state in Russia was a complete surprise for a number of Western specialists. Greater surprise caused the show, whom Sergei Lavrov gave John Kerry. Experts have put a lot of imagination and own intellectual resources to understand what is meant in the context of Russian-American relations basket Krasnodar potatoes.
The main way the Western media attention was riveted directly to the basket with potatoes due to the fact that before John Kerry was awarded Sergey Lavrov such a present - in 2014 at a meeting in Paris, he presented the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 2 potatoes. They, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, are "in a distant kinship relationships that once brought him the American worker".
As objectively noted American magazine Vox, raw potatoes is considered to be incomprehensible gift for anyone, but especially doubtful, he looks in the context of diplomatic relations between Russia and the USA. In this regard, reporters are having a lot of issues conventionally potato exchange.
For example, reporters asked - considering that John Kerry is considered a billionaire, how he could think that a couple of raw potatoes might actually be fully present? Besides all this, rushed them in the eye and different scale of gifts.
"Kerry gave Lavrov, 2 potatoes, but Lavrov in response gave a lot more. Does this mean that Russia won the potato race weapons?", asked by American reporters. Probably thought they, this gesture was necessary to show the advantage of the Russian potato technology.
The Washington Post noted that with all the ambiguity of the show, whom in the future the increased tensions between the leaders of the American and Russian diplomacy are fewer questions than those that were previously. Thus, experts reminded how Hillary Clinton, who then occupied the position of United States Secretary of state, presented to Sergey Lavrov, the red key. It was planned that it will be written "Reset", but in reality, the inscription reads "Overload".