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    1. Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe

      Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.

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      More than 170 rare books have vanished, replaced by very high-quality fakes. This reproduction of a first edition of an 1822 book by Alexander Pushkin was found at the University of Warsaw library, in Poland.
      More than 170 rare books have vanished, replaced by very high-quality fakes. This reproduction of a first edition of an 1822 book by Alexander Pushkin was found at the University of Warsaw library, in Poland.
      CreditWojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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