Alexander Solzhenitsyn dead at 89

  8 votes
Recommend
Russian literary giant, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who revealed the horror of Stalin's brutal labour camps to the world in his writings and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow. The author of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "Gulag Archipelago", who made a hero's return to Russia in 1994, died of heart failure, though some reports suggest the Nobel Prize winning writer succumbed to a stroke. He'd been in ill health for years. Helen Long reports.


dotclear
Other Videos

Israel mall bomb stopped

Israeli bomb disposal experts defused a suspected car-bomb left at a shopping mall in...
» view video

Olmpic pandas return home

Eight young pandas who became China's Olympic mascots prepare to return to Sichuan...
» view video

Japan cargo plane crashes

A FedEx cargo plane landing at Japan's Narita airport skid off the tarmac in a wind gust, bursting...
» view video

Pope's condom stand challenged

Far-right youths have argued with left-wing activists in Paris, who were protesting against Pope...
» view video

Austria reacts to Fritzl verdict

As Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a mental institution, some Austrians from his home town...
» view video
dotclear
video Video categories
» Home » Specials » World 
» Business » Technology » U.S. 
» Science » Health » Movie Reviews 
» Movies » Music » People 
» Sports » Gadgets » Video Games 
SHARE THE VIDEO:
Del.icio.us Digg Stumble Upon
Facebook Newsvine Mixx

» E-mail To A Friend
dotclear
dotclear
dotclear
Photos Gallery
dotclear