NEW YORK: December 5, 2008
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion Expresses His Condolences On the Repose of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia MORE...

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is dead at 89

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of fiction and history written in the 20th century, died late Sunday in Russia, his son Yermolai said early Monday in Moscow. He said the cause was a heart condition. He was 89.   MORE…