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LONDON, Thursday
(AAP). - A Soviet friend
ship delegation is "sur
prised and disappointed"
at being refused entry
visas to Australia, Russia's
Novosti information ser
vice reported today.
The delegation included
the director of the Institute
of Economics and Mathe
matics at the Soviet
Acadcmy of Sciences, Mr
Nikolai Fedorcnko, said
Novosti.
It was to have repre
sented the USSR-Australia
Society - a body affiliated
with the Union of Soviet
Friendship Societies_ - at
a conference starting in
Sydney on Saturday.
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