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Will Maule

Inside St Petersburg cafe where pro-Putin blogger 'assassinated' with statue bomb

Russian officials are combing through the cafe where a pro-Putin blogger was killed in a suspected assassination.

Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, died in St Petersburg on Sunday after being handed a statue of himself by a woman, which was believed to contain 200g of TNT explosives.

A video posted on Russian messaging app channels showed the cafe after the explosion. Tables and chairs were broken and stained by blood, and shards of glass littered the floor.

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