a quick question about gift wrap in Russia

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Lakhtikova, Anastasiya V wrote:

> Andrea,
>
> They are a certain kind of a plastic bag. It's a shopping bag but it's
> very different from American shopping bags. Neither is it a gift bag.
> It’s about the size of an American shopping paper bag or even bigger,
> configured in the same way, with plastic handles. It’s usually plastic,
> opaque, with some gaudy photograph (a model, an auto, a landscape, or
> fruit) on white background.
>
> Here, if you scroll down you will see a slightly more modest version of
> what I am describing.
>
> <http://www.kznportal.ru/photoreports/id6156/ >

If you're referring to the one that says "Олимпиада-80," I'd call that a 
"souvenir bag" (to remember the event). I agree it's not fancy enough to 
call a "gift bag"; I definitely deducted points for the use of plastic.

For gift bags, see the images here:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gift+bag%22&tbm=isch>

And those look an awful lot like these:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22пакет%22&tbm=isch>

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Paul B. Gallagher
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