Ms Brown's conjectures about Tsiskaridze in an earlier blog piece are outrageous:
http://www.ismeneb.com/ismeneb.com/Blog ... ttack.htmlBasically because Pavel Dmitrichenko's girlfriend is a pupil of Tsiskaridze's she makes the assumption that he ordered Pavel D. to arrange the attack, as warped an interpretation of the facts as you are likely to read.
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The pair took their fury to their mentor, the controversial Nikolai Tsiskaridze - where it is said he made a pointed remark about Filin and mirrors, which may well be decoded for hidden messages for almost as long as history has attempted to decode Henry II’s legendary non-instruction about Thomas à Beckett.
Well, Pavel D. will get his day in court and more of the Bolshoi's dirty linen will be on show. I must say that I was shocked to hear that he accuses Filin of taking back-handers, I could name a couple of AD's that are guilty of that but I hadn't heard even a rumour accusing Filin of such a thing.
Pavel D's girlfriend is being tainted by association in all this and this quote attributed to Marina Kondratieva is beyond belief:
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“As for Angelina Vorontsova, she is a capable young girl. But she's put on weight and she’s just not the right shape for the roles she aimed for. How could Filin fast-track her? Tsiskaridze worked with her and coached her, but she is basically too fat," Marina Viktorovna told Izvestia.
Fat?
Fat!Here is what Vorontsova looks like
http://static.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/16758055_ul.jpgAnd here is Kondratieva
http://www.bolshoi.ru/r/71A578B9-A97D-4 ... ora-bg.jpg I don't see an awful lot of difference size-wise.
This is such a dreadful business and a tragedy for everyone involved.