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MOSCOW - Gleb Yakunin, a dissident Russian Orthodox priest who was defrocked and later excommunicated, has died at age 80. His widow, Iraida, told The Associated Press on Dec. 30 that he died Dec. 25 from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. 

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