Scandal rocks the Bolshoi

IT was once a byword for the finest in Russian culture. But the Bolshoi theatre, which gave the world Vaslav Nijinsky, Ekaterina Maximova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, is in danger of gaining a reputation for something altogether different. It is accused of falling victim to modern Russia’s ills — greed, vulgarity and corruption.The surprise departure last week of Gennady Yanin, deputy director of the