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Wednesday 6th March, 2013
Bolshoi ballet director’s eyesight at risk after acid attack One of the top dancers at Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre has confessed to plotting an acid attack that nearly blinded the troupe’s artistic director, police said. Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has played the evil villain in Swan Lake and the crazed monarch in Ivan The Terrible, was detained on Tuesday over a crime that has shocked Russia and damaged the reputation of one its leading cultural institutions, revealing bitter rivalries behind the scenes. Police said Dmitrichenko had confessed to planning the attack in which a masked…
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