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Notorious Russian crime boss Aslan Usoyan was buried in a tightly controlled ceremony in Moscow on Sunday, after efforts to fly his body to his hometown in Georgia fell through.

A sniper fatally shot Usoyan in the neck in central Moscow on
Wednesday. Known in the mafia world as “Grandpa Hassan,” Usoyan, 75, was
the head of a gang that is reportedly the most powerful in the former
Soviet Union.

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