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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stepped off his plane in a sweatshirt stamped ‘CCCP’ (USSR in English) while Kremlin outlets boasted that the press corps had been served Chicken Kyiv en route. A sweatshirt and a menu are ordinary things until they are not. Soviet letters asserted a historical claim in block print to Ukraine, while ‘Kyiv’ turned into a culinary sneer, recasting the nation’s capital as a punchline.
Zelenskyy’s new look
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