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Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We are all incredibly happy. Now the big work starts to find out what happened." Viktor Matveyev, director of Solchart, the operator of the Russian crewed freighter that went missing for three weeks Article, this page

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