Azerbaijani authorities confessed: an employee of protocol department insulted Russian FM Sergey Lavrov during the signing ceremony of bilateral agreements between Russia and Azerbaijan.

According to the Azerbaijani online resource haqqin.az, the incident happened during the signing ceremony when a person announcing the names of officials mispronounced Sergey Lavrov’s name, “a very difficult” name for a Russian speaker.

Because of mispronunciation, Lavrov’s name sounded like an f-word in Azerbaijani. In any case, it is noteworthy that a video was posted on YouTube by the Russian side, and was the subject of extensive discussion in Azerbaijan and far beyond.

Meanwhile, a source told haqqin.az, that an employee of the protocol department of the presidential administration was “fired for making a mistake.”