Ukrainian Playwright Mashutina Killed in Moscow Terror Plot

Anna Mashutina, Ukrainian dramatist (pen name Anna Yablonskaya) who has been noticed as a rising young talent was among those killed in the blast at a Moscow airport on Monday, Variety reports today. Before the attack, Mashutina had arrived in Moscow on a flight from her native Odessa. She was on her way to receive a prize for a screenplay based on her play "The Pagan" from Russian cinema magazine Iskusstvo Kino. A suspected suicide bomber set off a device that killed 35 people and injured hundreds of others.

Her airline Transaero had initially reported that no passengers on Mashutina's flight had been harmed.  Mashutina, whose play "The Pagan" is due to be featured at London's Royal Court Theater during its International Playwrights Season February-April, leaves a husband and a three-year-old daughter.  She was 29 years old.