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Sergo Mikoyan, Russian historian and son of Stalin associate, dies at 80

Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His father was Soviet Communist Party leader Anastas Mikoyan, a long-time associate of Josef Stalin....
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