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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently gave a gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It was meant to underscore the Obama administration's readiness to "to press the reset button" in ties with Moscow.

But instead of the Russian word for "reset" (perezagruzka) it featured a slightly different word meaning "overload" or "overcharged" (peregruzka).

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