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Bolshoi director Sergei Filin hurt in acid attack
The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Theatre is being treated in a Moscow hospital for severe burns to his face after a masked man threw acid in his face, police say.
Sergei Filin, an award-winning ballet star, was attacked while walking home in central Moscow on Thursday. Doctors are now fighting to save his eyesight.
A Bolshoi spokesman said Mr Filin, 42, had suffered months of threats.
Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
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