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Russia's elite pay tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has died aged 89

Updated on 04 August 2008

By James Blake

Russian presidents past and present praise author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose death was announced last night.

Russia's President Medvedev and the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, are among those who have paid tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn following his death at the age of 89.

The Russian author and dissident became a symbol of intellectual resistance to Communist rule.

Exiled to the west, he returned to Russia after the fall of communism.

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