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A U.S. Citizen Has Gone Missing In Russia, Sparking A Criminal Investigation

Catherine Serou, a U.S. citizen studying in Russia.

Catherine Serou, a U.S. citizen studying in Russia, has been missing since she got into a car with a stranger on Tuesday. The authorities in Nizhny Novgorod, 250 miles east of Moscow, have started a criminal investigation and are searching a forested area outside the city where Serou's cell phone was last picked up.

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