RUSSIA/FILE: Bolshoi dancer in pre-trial hearings over acid attack against his boss

Record ID: 354040

  • Title: RUSSIA/FILE: Bolshoi dancer in pre-trial hearings over acid attack against his boss
  • Date: 16th October 2013
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 16, 2013) (REUTERS) TRAFFIC OUTSIDE MOSCOW DISTRICT COURT PEOPLE ENTERING COURT SIGN ON WALL READING IN RUSSIAN 'RUSSIAN FEDERATION. MESHCHANSKY DISTRICT COURT. MOSCOW' COURT SECURITY OFFICERS ON STREET, CARS DRIVING PAST PEOPLE WAITING IN COURTHOUSE CORRIDOR SCHEDULE OF COURT HEARINGS ON WALL INCLUDING ACID ATTACK CASE VARIOUS OF SUSPECTS' RELATIV
  • Embargoed: 31st October 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Arts,General
  • Reuters ID: LVA4WYI2W3V5JS3UKTRU0KSJGORE
  • Story Text: A court in Moscow on Wednesday (October 16) started pre-trial hearings in the trial of Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko and two other men accused of an acid attack against Bolshoi ballet director Sergei Filin.
    One of the Bolshoi's top dancers, Pavel Dmitrichenko, is on trial on charges of ordering the attack. He and his two alleged accomplices face up to 12 years in jail if convicted.
    Dmitrichenko, who made his name playing villains in Swan Lake and Ivan the Terrible, told the court he was upset with the management and Filin, but that he only wanted the artistic director beaten up, not attacked with acid.
    The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet Sergei Filin returned to Moscow from Germany in September following eight months and 22 operations on his eyes and face after the attack.
    Filin had the power to make or break careers at the Bolshoi, a world-renowned symbol of Russian culture, and the Jan. 17 attack put the ballet's bitter internal rivalries in the spotlight.
    Bolshoi representatives said in June Filin could not see out of one eye at all and vision in the second one was severely damaged.
    Russia dismissed the long-serving head of the Bolshoi, Anatoly Iksanov, in the aftermath of the incident, and entrusted another experienced theatre manager with the mission to rebuild the theatre's reputation.
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