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Reverend
October 4th, 2007, 19:41 PM
The Russian media have been feeding their audiences small nuggets of Soviet-era nostalgia as the country celebrates the 50th anniversary of the start of the space age.

Thursday's news bulletins on the main national television networks showed black-and-white archive footage from 1957, when the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union.

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