MOSCOW, Dec 4: Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced to six years in a high-security prison yesterday for ordering an acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and tarnished the reputation of the renowned theatre. A judge announced the sentence after convicting Dmitrichenko and two co-defendants of the attack on Sergei Filin last January, which exposed poisonous rivalries over roles, money and power at one of Russia’s most prominent cultural institutions. (agencies)
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