Russian writer prompts porn inquiry

Friday, July 12, 2002

MOSCOW -- A criminal complaint from a youth group that backs President Vladimir Putin has prompted an inquiry into an iconoclastic author over a novel that depicts sexual contact between Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev.

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