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Russia marks 80 years since breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad

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The Russian city of St. Petersburg on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a devastating World War II siege by Nazi forces with a series of memorial events attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and close allies.

The leader laid flowers at a monument to fallen Soviet defenders of the city, then called Leningrad,

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