A professor at the University of Manitoba, Oleg Pokhanovski, has been charged in Winnipeg with sexual assault on a teenaged private pupil.
The alleged incidents took place between 2007 and 2010.
Pokhanovski, 55, reported voluntarily to police on July 29. He was chaged and released on bail. He is a graduate of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and received his PhD from the University of Montreal.
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