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(Reuters) -Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD), which Moscow had planned to use to service the country’s Eurobonds, will suspend transactions in euros after the European Union added the entity to its extended sanctions list, the NSD said on Friday. Earlier this week, Russia said it was replacing Citibank, which has stopped servicing the country’s Eurobonds, with the NSD, as the country risks its first major external debt default in more than a century. Last week, a U.S. waiver allowing Russia to service its Eurobonds in the original currency of issuance expired. In response, Moscow p…