Sunday, August 03, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn b.1918 - d.2008

(Moscow, Russia) Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn died earlier today at his home in the Moscow area. The Nobel Prize recipient died of either a stroke or a heart attack according to differing reports.

He was 89 and had suffered from high blood pressure.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent condolences to Solzhenitsyn's family.

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