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The leader of a consumer-protection group in the Russian city of Novosibirsk says an arson attack has destroyed his summer house.

Activist Rostislav Antonov told RFE/RL on April 17 that a man suspected of setting the dacha on fire a day earlier had been apprehended and identified as a former convict. There was no immediate comment from police.

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