Trust, but verify had been popular in the USSR when Gorbachev was in college, saying that "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." Following the 2013 Ghouta attacks, Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference in Geneva on September 14, 2013 that the United States and Russia had agreed on a framework to dispose of Syria's chemical weapons. He said "President Reagan's old adage about 'trust but verify' ... is in need of an update. And we have committed here to a standard that says 'verify and verify'." The similar phrase "Trust and Verify" was also
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,