Trust, but verify Trust, but verify Trust, but verify (; "Doveryat, no proverit") is a Russian proverb. The phrase became well known in English when used by President Ronald Reagan on multiple occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament. Suzanne Massie, an American writer, met with President Ronald Reagan many times between 1984 and 1987. She taught him the Russian proverb "Doveryai, no proveryai" (; "Trust, but verify"), advising him that "The Russians like to talk in proverbs. It would be nice of you to know a few. You are an actor – you can learn them very quickly." The proverb was adopted
State quality mark of the USSR of the Soviet Union Russian government introduced its own sign for certification of quality known as Rostest Mark (or R Mark) The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word "Kachestvo" – quality) stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation СССР, "SSSR" (USSR) State quality mark of the USSR The State quality mark of the USSR (, translit. Gosudarstvennyi znak kachestva SSSR) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967. It was used to mark consumer, production, and technical goods to certify that they met quality standards and, in general,