And who are you?!

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used obscene language in a telephone conversation with his British counterpart David Miliband - at least, this is what The Telegraph newspaper writes. It is alleged that the Russian minister used the word "fuck" several times. In particular, he asked such a delicate question: “Who are you to fucking lecture me?!” (“Who are you, *****, to lecture me?!”) and in such “terms” he asked how well Miliband knew the history of Russia.

If this is really the case, then the indignation of the Russian Foreign Ministry in relation to the phrase “these guys” used by a representative of the American State Department looks especially touching. “The language of ‘these guys’ is not the language that is used with one’s political and other partners,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. “This kind of language can be used in bars, say, somewhere in Texas, but not in international communication,” he added. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, speaking of the Russian authorities, said: "These guys are trying at every turn to evade any obligations they have assumed."