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Yevtushenko, renowned Russian poet, dies at 84 in Oklahoma
Acclaimed poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies at 84 after a long cancer battle. Tulsa University professor Roger Blais noted his death, with family and widow Maria Novikova present. He authored Babi Yar, critiquing Stalin and anti Semitism, and spent years dividing time between Oklahoma and Moscow. He gained global fame for his fierce human rights poetry and public readings in Russia and the West.
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Oklahoma City
Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko
Ginny Hensley
Hillcrest Medical Center
Tulsa
Yevtushenko
Roger Blais
University of Tulsa
Yevgeny Y. Yevtushenko
Maria Novikova
Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
Russia
West
Robert Donaldson
Harvard
Oklahoma
Moscow
Associated Press
Kiev
Ukraine
Babi Yar
Siberia
Zima
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Brodsky
Blais
Dmitry Medvedev
Vkontakte
Vladimir Putin
Yevgeniy Yevtushenko