Katayev

Today, though, bureaucrats who don't want to relinquish control of valuable real estate are the problem, said Dmitri Katayev, a former city legislator who helped draft the first post-Soviet property laws.

Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev.