On Monday, the new Russian Ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, offered the NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a tomahawk with an inscription, by the end of the accreditation letter submission. “I have given a lot of thought with regards to the souvenir I could surprise the NATO Secretary General with. I am aware of the fact that he often pays visits to Russia and, on these occasions, he must have seen all kinds of Russian Matrioska dolls, samovars etc. I said to myself that a Matrioska doll wouldn’t represent a great deal of surprise to him, so why wouldn’t offer him a tomahawk (a war axe). Therefore, I have asked some Russian manufacturers and they have made me an axe to be envied”, explained Rogozin.
Tomahawk is an axe of medium size, which the Amerindians used as a provisioning tool, as well as a war weapon, by throwing it. The NATO Russian Ambassador expressed his hope that the NATO Secretary General shall burry the axe deep down into the earth as a sign of conflicts’ cease between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia. “The tomahawk is in his own hands and all he needs is a shovel to dig the deepest hole for the one of a kind axe”, has added Rogozin, indicating a fruitful discussion with the Secretary General.
