Documents with State Department markings found in an Anchorage hotel following President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin included a handy guide on how to properly pronounce Putin and others Russian officials’ names.

NPR first broke the story Saturday on the left-behind documents, which were apparently sitting on a desktop printer at a hotel business center.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly called the find a “multi-page lunch menu” and said the documents contained no sensitive information that would amount to a security breach.

One of the odder details from the eight pages is a list of Russian state leaders and phonetic pronouncers for all of their names.

For Putin, the documents instruct: “Mr. President POO-tihn.”

The documents also stated that a luncheon was being held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”

Others included on the phonetic list were Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov (“Laav-rof”) and Aide to the President for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov (“Oo-sha-kov”).

Putin’s phonetic explanation appeared to stand out the most on social media where people were quick to spread the “POO-tihn” detail.

Other non-sensitive details revealed in the documents included that Trump gifted Putin with a “ceremonial present” in the form of a bald eagle statue for Putin’s desk.

A final deal was not reached during the summit to end Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, but Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity afterwards that it went great, giving the meeting a perfect “10.”

“I think the meeting was a 10, in the sense that we got along great! And it’s good when two big powers get along, especially when they’re nuclear powers. We’re number one. They’re number two in the world. And it’s a big deal. That’s a big deal!” he said. “You never want to even mention that word, the word nuclear, but we have a tremendous nuclear. You know, I rebuilt it when I was president first term. And I hated to rebuild it. It was the one thing I hated to rebuild, but we had to. And we have the greatest nuclear force.”

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