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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized Norway for arresting a Russian parliamentary employee last week, calling the espionage accusations against the man “propaganda.”

“You have been brainwashed with propaganda. We want to understand what happened to our citizen,” Lavrov said on September 25 while answering a Norwegian reporter’s question on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

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