[MineralMan]

"what could possibly be mistranslated into "pomegranate"? "

Grenade. Same root.

[BrooklynGOP]

Breaking...

Vesti.ru confirms that all children have been released.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Hmmmm, so they are. Though online dictionaries give the Russian for pomegranate as "granat" and for grenade as "granata". Shouldn't these translator programs use dictionaries?

As an aside, I used to live in Moscow and remember pomegranates as about the only locally available fruit in winter. Try to imagine a bunch of grade-schoolers with pomegranates in their lunch boxes; a few lucky kids even had straws to launch their seeds with.

[dinasour]

"what could possibly be mistranslated into "pomegranate"? "

Grenade. Same root.

I think you are right. French for pomegranate is grenadia or something like that.