MOSCOW — A masked man threw acid in the face of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the legendary Bolshoi Ballet, on Thursday night, leaving him with third-degree burns and threatening his eyesight, Bolshoi officials said Friday.
The attack followed a series of anonymous threats to Filin, 42, a dancer who rose through the ranks of the world’s largest ballet company.
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Russia - one thousand year history or trying to join the human race.
He was maimed in Russia but will have to go to Germany or Israel for treatment. Reminds me of the Russian gymnast whose son had leukemia and could get no treatment in Russia and so joined the German Olympic team in order to get top-notch German medical care. So much for the splendid universal health care system developed by the Soviets and so touted by their Western admirers.