Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on Saturday.

A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building over the weekend.

A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine has mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building. Vladimir Shklyarov, a married father of ...

Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98.

Russian dance critic Leila Guchmazova told the New York Times it was as though "a bomb" had been detonated in the Russian ballet world. So opened the cultural front of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.