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(Reuters) – A young man has died after being detained this month in Russia’s Bashkortostan region after it was jolted by a series of rare protests, a rights group said on Saturday. OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, quoted a relative as saying that Rifat Dautov had not taken part in demonstrations called to denounce the jailing of an activist defending the local language and culture. Dautov was detained briefly in Ufa, chief town of the region in Russia’s Urals mountains, on the day of a protest and later in a town to the south where he was taken away by a group of men i…

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