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Katayev

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[kuh-tah-yif] / kʌˈtɑ yɪf /

noun

  1. Valentin Petrovich 1897–1986, Russian writer.


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Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev.

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