The Passing of a Literary Giant!

Just read on BBC News that the Russian author and Nobel Laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, passed away earlier today at the age of 89:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

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Obituary: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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