Big sentence for artist
i (\ .Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyriijht) i; MOSCOW. Vladimir Moroz, a Russian artist once well-known ini .the foreign community in • Moscow, has been sentenced ■ to 15 years’ gaol for large-: | scale speculation in icons' (religious art objects). The sources said Moroz, aged about 40, received the maximum prison term under ■ article 88 of the U.S.S.R. icriminal code, which forbids: speculation in items of for-' '■eign currency value. They ‘ could provide no details of . when or where he was tried, “'but said that he was ar-: I rested last summer. r Moroz’s estranged wife is! ■ the cellist Natalie Gutman, 1 generally considered one of' -| the rising stars of Soviet, . music’s younger generation.] (They have one young child. I
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33817, 14 April 1975, Page 21
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118Big sentence for artist Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33817, 14 April 1975, Page 21
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