Russian prosecutors seek nine years for acid attack dancer

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Russian prosecutors seek nine years for acid attack dancer

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/russian-prosecutors-seek-nine-years-acid-attack-dancer-124416766--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zy_r0s6lqzNGgtsq7UA3fA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-29T150109Z_3_CBRE9AS0Z8000_RTROPTP_2_RUSSIA-BOLSHOI.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of Yury Zarutsky looking out from the defendant's holding cell during a court hearing in Moscow" align="left" title="File photo of Yury Zarutsky looking out from the defendant's holding cell during a court hearing in Moscow" border="0" /></a>By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - State prosecutors demanded a nine-year jail sentence on Friday for a dancer accused of ordering an acid attack that nearly blinded the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director and exposed bitter rivalries at one of Russia's great cultural institutions. Pavel Dmitrichenko, a former soloist at the Bolshoi, showed no emotion as he sat still in a courtroom cage listening to the prosecution summary in a trial that lasted one month. The prosecution also asked for 10 years in prison for Yuri Zarutsky, who is accused of throwing the acid in artistic director Sergei Filin's face last January, and six years for Andrei Lipatov, accused of driving him to and from the scene. &quot;Dmitrichenko's motive was a conflict between Filin and Dmitrichenko,&quot; prosecutor Yulia Shumovskaya told the Moscow court, saying the dispute was caused by the dancer's disappointment at not being given good roles by Filin.</p><br clear="all"/>

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