There were dark days in Russia but plenty to write home about elsewhere, including a star defection from London to… LondonRead the Observer critics' reviews of the year in full hereA Russian court this month sentenced Bolshoi ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko to six years in jail for his part in an acid attack that nearly blinded Sergei Filin, the company's artistic director. The assault, which took place in January…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on December 21, 2013