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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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      </item>
      <item logid="613370" ns="0" title="Пастыри" pageid="421053" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Obermeister" timestamp="2017-06-23T12:07:24Z" comment="">
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      </item>
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  </query>
</api>