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Yaroslavl memorial ceremony

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An estimated 100,000 people attended memorial ceremonies Saturday for the victims of the plane crash that killed 43 of the 45 people on board -- most of whom were members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team. The general funeral ceremony took place at the arena in Yaroslavl, Russia. The ceremony for Ruslan Salei took place in his hometown of Minsk, Belarus, and the ceremony for Vitaliy Anikeyenko and Daniil Sobchenko was held in their hometown of Kiev, Ukraine.

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