Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them [have] never left the United States. They live in their own walls. So I'm not amazed about this Russophobia which is being displayed by the Congress at the moment. (Sergey Lavrov)

Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them [have] never left the United States. They live in their own walls. So I'm not amazed about this Russophobia which is being displayed by the Congress at the moment.

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