Russia’s Lavrov Wears USSR Sweatshirt to Trump-Putin Summit

The foreign minister wasn’t subtle about his Soviet nostalgia.

A screengrab from a video shows a man walking from a car into a building wearing a CCCP shirt under a black vest. August 15, 2025, 3:18 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

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The Russian government is many things, but subtle is not one of them. Ahead of a highly anticipated summit on the Russia-Ukraine war in Alaska on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov engaged in some blatant trolling.

Lavrov arrived in Alaska wearing a CCCP sweatshirt. Those are the Russian initials for “USSR,” which stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (aka the Soviet Union). Experts say that Lavrov, who has been

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