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Lyudmila Malinina's voice trembled as she described the secret funeral she witnessed on a recent night in her small town of Sudislavsky in the Kostroma region of central Russia. At about 8 p.m., a truck parked at the cemetery a few yards away from her wooden house. The truck's headlights stayed on to illuminate the ground for several men to hurriedly dig the grave, "as if they were thieves hiding something", Luydmila says

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