Pres Putin-according to a report in the NYT-stated,that something was
"half-boiled boots"[in the sense of utter nonsense].The NYT reported
on the press conference of 5/10/05 given withrepresentatives of the
EU(Junkers.Barroso and Solano)What did Putin say in Russian?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 14 May 2005 13:42 PDT

Does this provide a satisfactory answer?

"Last fall, at a press conference in Yalta, after Russia's signing of
the Agreement of Common Economic Space with Belarus, Kazakhstan and
Ukraine, Putin was asked if this agreement meant a return to the USSR.
His reply was: ???? ?
?????????, ?????
?????, ?????
? ???
????.?
(?This is total nonsense, absurdity, soft-boiled boots.?) The word
???
????is usually applied to eggs ????
????
????is a soft-boiled egg.
By applying it to boots, Putin gave a colorful, if difficult to
translate, image of complete idiocy."

http://www.americantranslators.org/divisions/SLD/PDF/SF%20Fall%20%202004%20final%20(1).pdf

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 14 May 2005 13:44 PDT

If the Cyrillic characters in the quote posted above are not displayed
accurately, please click the link to see the quote in its original
context. It's on page 3 of the document.

Dear schullerx, 

If you'll answer Pinkfreud, she could post the information as an
official answer and receive payment for her labour.