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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has said that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s comparison of Russia’s hosting of the World Cup with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany was “disgusting” and “unacceptable.”

“This is a completely disgusting statement. It is beneath the foreign minister of the country — any country,” Dmitry Peskov said on March 22. “Without a doubt, it is offensive and unacceptable.”

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