Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko, whose work focused on war atrocities and denounced anti-Semitism and tyrannical dictators, has died. Ginny Hensley, a spokeswoman for Hillcrest Medical Center in the eastern Oklahoma city of Tulsa, confirmed Yevtushenko's death. "I like very much the University of Tulsa," Yevtushenko said in a 1995 interview with the AP. He was also touched after the 1995 bombing of a federal government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. —————Associated Press writers Jim Heintz in Moscow, Nomaan Merchant in Houston and Tim Talley in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

Source: ABC News April 01, 2017 18:31 UTC