"[U.K. Foreign Secretary] David Miliband was subjected to an astonishing four-letter tirade from his Russian counterpart at the height of the Georgia crisis. The Foreign Secretary received the undiplomatic tongue-lashing over the telephone after expressing the EU's anger with the Kremlin... At one point Sergei Lavrov, the colourful Russian foreign minister, became so incensed that he reportedly barked: 'Who the f*** are you to lecture me?'... Mr. Miliband's grandfather Samuel [a Polish Jew] served in the Red Army and his father Ralph Miliband was a leading Marxist theoretician...[who] is buried close to Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery."

-- London Daily Mail

It seems that the Russians are well aware of just who has been pulling the strings in Georgia, and the "special relationship" they have with Israel, which provided the weapons and training used in the assault on South Ossetia which killed almost 1500 people. Evidently, being a Zionist* troublemaker outweighs a Marxist pedigree in diplomatic circles these days.

The Russians have since denied the veracity of the story:

"The Russian Foreign Ministry denied on Saturday British media reports that the head of the Russian diplomatic body, Sergei Lavrov, used foul language talking to his British counterpart David Miliband."

-- RIA Novosti

* Note that Mr. Miliband advocates a "two state solution" in Palestine, which is the more moderate Zionist position.