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A kerfuffle is brewing in Belarus after a Russian beer named for the nerve agent that British authorities say was used to poison a Russian ex-spy hit the shelves in Minsk.

A Russian-made craft beer called “Novichok” got a bitter reception from some in the Belarusian capital who criticized the producer for lampooning the March poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the southern English city of Salisbury.

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