Bolshoi Solo Dancer Arrested over Acid Attack on Artistic Director

Police in Moscow have detained a suspect over a horrific acid attack on the Bolshoi Theater’s artistic director, a police spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. A masked assailant threw concentrated acid into the face of Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi’s artistic director, on January 17 in Moscow and fled the scene. Filin suffered third-degree burns to his face and eyes. He is currently undergoing treatment in Germany. “Yury Zarutsky, the suspected attacker, has been detained,” the spokesman said. Meanwhile, police also searched an apartment belonging to the Bolshoi Theater’s leading solo dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, who was later detained in connection with the attack.  Dmitrichenko has performed at the theater for more than a decade. In one of the most recent performances, he played the tsar in "Ivan the Terrible." The police believe he ordered the attack.

http://en.ria.ru/crime/20130305/179823862/Bolshoi-Acid-Attack-Suspect-Detained.html
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2013/03/06/filin/