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Court rules Dmitrichenko guilty of masterminding assault on Bolshoi ballet choreographer

At least 100 journalists, relatives of the defendants and members of the Bolshoi theatre company watched the trial

MOSCOW, December 03. /ITAR-TASS/. Principal dancer of the Bolshoi ballet Pavel Dmitrichenko has been found guilty of masterminding an assault on chief ballet choreographer Sergei Filin.

All six defendants on trial were convicted at Meshchansky court, judge Yelena Maximova announcing that "Dmitrichenko resented both Filin's conduct when appointing ballet dancers to dance ballet parts and the way Filin distributed bonuses among the dancers. Dmitrichenko masterminded a criminal plan," she said.