Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release The virtuoso ballet dancer Valery Panov, who has died aged 87, became a cause ...
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews. By Trip Gabriel Valery ...
The acclaimed ballet dancer whose lengthy struggle to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel focused worldwide attention on the plight of ‘refuseniks’ Russian Ballet dancer Valery Panov and his wife ...
Ukrainian political prisoner Artur Panov charged with preparing a terrorist attack in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) has announced at the court session that he started an indefinite 'dry' hunger strike ...