Russian theater director Lyubimov dies at 97 by Associated Press

MOSCOW " Soviet and Russian actor and director Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow's renowned Taganka Theater, which he led for more than four decades, has died at age 97.During the 1980s, Lyubimov was exiled for several years after criticizing cultural restrictions in the Soviet Union in an interview with a British newspaper.

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