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A grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev has died in Russian-controlled Crimea.

Konstantin Knyrik, the chairman of the Rodina (Motherland) party’s branch in Crimea, said on July 11 that Andrei Brezhnev had died of a heart attack a day earlier.

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