https://freerepublic.com/tag/nikitakruschev/ en-us Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:18:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714574/posts Filed at 1:35 p.m. ET MOSCOW (AP) -- 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. Police opened the investigation after prosecutors found that parts of Vladimir Sorokin's 1999 book ``Goluboye Salo'' -- which can be translated as ``Blue Lard'' or ``Gay Lard'' -- are pornographic, Svetlana Petrenko, an aide to the chief Moscow prosecutor, said Thursday. The investigation alarmed advocates of freedom of expression, who have long been concerned about the possibility of a... AP via NYTimes.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714574/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:18:08 GMT