The head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov gave the US Secretary of state John Kerry t-shirt With the symbols of Victory, Krasnodar tomatoes and potatoes, said the Deputy Director of the Department of information and press of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
"Lavrov gave J. Kerry Krasnodar tomatoes and potatoes in a distant kinship With that some time ago he brought American counterpart. And j. Kerry will take to Washington a t-shirt With the symbols of Victory, " Zakharova wrote on Facebook.



"The head of the state Department for its part presented a list of quotations of the Russian media, in his opinion, do not reflect the real potential of large-scale Russian-American relations, which, in his opinion, need improvement. In other words, in Sochi today is Sunny", she added. The Secretary of state on Tuesday morning arrived in Sochi, where in addition to negotiations With the Russian colleague will hold a meeting With Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kerry and Lavrov have met in Sochi and laid wreaths to the memorial complex is the monument to the residents of the town who died fighting in the great Patriotic war. Then the employees of the foreign Ministry will proceed with the negotiations. The main topics of the talks, Lavrov and Kerry will be the situation in Ukraine, Yemen, Iran and Syria. On the first day of the week, a diplomatic source said that although Moscow does not expect the arrival of U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry in Sochi on 12 may breakthrough results, the fact of the visit to the Russian Federation is very important and symbolic. The Russian side hopes that the visit of U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry in Sochi will contribute to the normalization of relations of the Russian capital and the capital of the USA. For his part, political analyst Wilanowska center in the U.S. capital Michael Kofman said that between the United States, its Western allies and the Russian capital " has been a good opportunity for compromise."

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