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Russian general killed by car bomb just outside Moscow; murder probe launched

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General-lieutenant Yaroslav Moskalik was deputy head of the main operational directorate of the military's General Staff .

The Volkswagen Golf blew up outside a block of flats in Balashikha , east of Moscow .

Investigators said they had opened a probe into murder and smuggling explosives.

The blast comes four months after the head of Russia 's chemical weapons unit was killed.

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