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Men carry a coffin during the funeral of Russian serviceman Fyodor Zhuravlyov near a cemetery in the village of Paltso, Bryansk region, Russia, November 24, 2015. Zhuravlyov left home in a rush. He only managed to scrawl a phone number and a few words to his wife on a sheet of paper. Late last week the military contacted the family to say that he was killed in combat on Thursday, Nov. 19. The 27-year-old now joins the growing ranks of the Russian army's unexplained dead, victims of the Kremlin's military engagements inside Russia and, in the past few years, beyond its borders too that are so secretive nobody will officially acknowledge where the deaths have occurred. (Photo by Maria Tsvetkova/Reuters)
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