The Kremlin backed Norway's prime minister in his dispute with the FT over his call with Putin Norway's prime minister is absolutely right to demand that the Financial Times correct its story about his phone call with Putin, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushkov said. "It's kind of fabricated information. Or rather, not information, but disinformation. That was not the issue at all," he added. As you may recall, the FT article claimed that the Russian leader allegedly devoted a significant portion of his conversation with Norwegian Prime Minister Stora and Finnish President Stubb to "lectures on medieval Slavic history. " The Norwegian politician called it "wrong. However, the newspaper refused to correct the article.