Bolshoi Dancer Confesses To Masterminding Attack

NPR | March 07, 2013 3:53 a.m. | Updated: March 07, 2013 7:41 p.m.

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In Russia, a prominent dancer with the fabled Bolshoi Ballet has confessed to ordering an attack on the company's director. The director suffered third degree burns after acid was thrown onto his face. For more on the scandals at the Bolshoi, Renee Montagne talks to writer Christina Ezrahi, author of "Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia."