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677:"Human rights activist dies"
628:"Natalia Estemirova, Russia"
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272:First Nagorno-Karabakh War
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706:Gannushkina, Svetlana
681:North Caucasus Weekly
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609:. 15 September 2004
576:Roshchin, Mikhail.
349:Novye Aldi massacre
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