Moscow - Russian newspapers paid tribute to the late ballet star, Rudolf Nureyev, yesterday, after the country's general prosecutor posthumously lifted the dancer's Soviet-era conviction for treason.
The Kommersant Daily business newspaper compared the prosecutor's decision to rehabilitate Nureyev, who defected in Paris during a 1961 tour, to moves by the Vatican to "confess to burning Joan of Arc, Galileo and other victims of ideology".
