MOSCOW - Russia's culture minister on Sunday fired the director of a Siberian theater whose modern staging of Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' offended the powerful Russian Orthodox Church.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) smiles as he takes part in an Orthodox Christmas mass in the village of Otradnoye near Voronezh early on Jan. 7, 2015.
