Bolshoi dancer confesses to acid attack on director
A dancer at Russia's Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded its director.
A dancer at Russia's Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded its director.
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Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has danced the crazed monarch in Ivan the Ter-rible and the villain in Swan Lake, was detained on Tuesday for a crime that shocked Russia and blackened the reputation of the theatre.
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