Russian international minister wears CCCP shirt to Alaska summit, a nod to Soviet nostalgia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wore a CCCP sweatshirt as he arrived in Alaska for the summit with President Trump. That is the Russian acronym for the USSR. Serhii Plokhy, a professor of historical past at Harvard University, explains how the shirt matches into Russia’s place on Ukraine and on the planet.

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