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After 32 years Russia is celebrating the completion of a dam in St Petersburg designed to protect the city from floods. Started in the Soviet-era, building was abandoned for a while in the 1990s due to the expense. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was at the inauguration on Friday.
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