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Kommersant-Daily reported June 6 that a classified ad in the New York Times offering to sell a Russian “Buran” space shuttle was probably a hoax. But the paper said it might reflect an effort by Russian space officials to test the waters and to see if they could raise money in a new and unusual way.

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