Truemors
News just in:
The Russian Gazeta is reporting the death of writer and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Initial reports suggest that he died of heart-failure. He was 89.
This story has just hit the wires. I'll update as more comes in.
Breaking News, from the BBC
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died at 89, Russian media say.
The author of One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich and the Gulag Archipelago, who returned to Russia in 1994, reportedly died of a stroke.
The Nobel laureate had suffered from high blood pressure in recent years.
After returning to Russia, Solzhenitsyn wrote several polemics on Russian history and identity.
The tributes to this great man are already starting to come in:
From Gazeta: The Russian President, Dmitriy Medvedev, has expressed his condolences to Solzhenitsyn 's wife and sons:
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