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KALISZ, Poland -- For evidence of how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has jangled nerves and provoked anxiety across Eastern Europe, look no farther than the drill held the other day by the Shooters Association, a paramilitary group that, like more than 100 others in Poland, has experienced a sharp spike in membership since Putin's forces began meddling in neighboring Ukraine last year.

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