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Russia detains Norwegian over suspected spying
Moscow/Oslo — Russia has detained a Norwegian citizen it suspects of spying, his lawyer and the RIA news agency said on Tuesday, citing a Moscow court which sanctioned the man’s detention. Media reports said Russia’s FSB security service had caught the Norwegian taking secret documents about the Russian navy from a Russian citizen. The detained man is 62-year-old pensioner Frode Berg, a former guard working on the Norwegian-Russian border who was arrested on December 5, his Norwegian lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told Reuters. "His family says the accusations of espionage are inexplicable. He was on a private visit to meet acquaintances from his former job and the cultural work he does. The family has known for a while that Berg was arrested. They thought it was a misunderstanding and that it would be clarified soon." Berg resides in the Norwegian city of Kirkenes, a town about 15km from the border with Russia. He is active in a cross-border cultural organisation called Girls on the Bridge...
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