Moscow calls on Oslo to stop persecuting Russian citizens on ethnic grounds — statement

Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/: Moscow calls on the Norwegian authorities to stop persecuting Russian citizens on ethnic grounds, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Monday in connection with the summoning of the kingdom's envoy to Moscow Robert Kvile over the arrest of Russian citizens in Norway.

"We called on the Norwegian authorities to abandon such Russophobic actions and persecution of Russian citizens on the grounds of nationality," the ministry pointed out.