Ballet dancer pavel dmitrichenko tsiskaridze

          The Bolshoi ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko has been found guilty of organising the acid attack on the theatre's artistic director and sentenced to six years.

        1. On 3 December , Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty of organising the attack on Bolshoi's then artistic director Sergei Filin and sentenced to six years in.
        2. Ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze has asked a Moscow court to annul official reprimands from the Bolshoi Theatre.
        3. Court sentences former Bolshoi dancer to six years in prison for his role in assault on creative director.
        4. Mr Tsiskaridze accused the theatre of using an acid attack on its artistic director to conduct a "witch hunt" against him.

          5. Ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze has asked a Moscow court to annul official reprimands from the Bolshoi Theatre.!

          Tsiskaridze Defends Suspect in Bolshoi Acid Attack in Court

          Prominent ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze on Monday defended the suspected mastermind of the acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director, testifying in court that he could not have been responsible for the attack that left Sergei Filin nearly blind.

          At a hearing at Moscow's Meshchansky District Court, Tsiskaridze said Pavel Dmitrichenko, a leading Bolshoi Ballet dancer who stands accused of orchestrating the attack, could not have been behind the attack because he was neither "conflictive" nor "aggressive."

          According to Tsiskaridze, while Dmitrichenko disagreed with many of Filin's policies at the theater, so did many other people.

          "Artists are often very emotional, and I had often conflicted with Sergei [Filin] but on the level of an artistic dispute," Tsiskaridze told the