Attack on Bolshoi head linked to ambition, anger
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January 29, 2013, Tuesday
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THE artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet said the attacker who splashed acid in his face was probably driven by ambition or resentment but that he had forgiven them.
His head shaven and a bandage around his neck, Sergei Filin told a Russian television station from his hospital bed that he was determined to return to work.
Filin, 42, suffered severe burns during the attack on his way home from the theatre in Moscow late on January 18. Doctors have performed two operations on each eye and hope to save his sight.
"I am not going to lie. Of course it is very hard for me and very difficult," Filin said. "I tell myself every morning when I wake up: 'Sergei, you are healthy, everything is in its place - your arms, your legs'. ... And I will do everything to go back to being the same Sergei I was before."
Filin said that he had been receiving threats. "A priest came to me, and I told him: 'You know, I forgive everyone, and God will be their judge. Because people are weak'," he said. "I forgive all the people who are involved in this."
His head shaven and a bandage around his neck, Sergei Filin told a Russian television station from his hospital bed that he was determined to return to work.
Filin, 42, suffered severe burns during the attack on his way home from the theatre in Moscow late on January 18. Doctors have performed two operations on each eye and hope to save his sight.
"I am not going to lie. Of course it is very hard for me and very difficult," Filin said. "I tell myself every morning when I wake up: 'Sergei, you are healthy, everything is in its place - your arms, your legs'. ... And I will do everything to go back to being the same Sergei I was before."
Filin said that he had been receiving threats. "A priest came to me, and I told him: 'You know, I forgive everyone, and God will be their judge. Because people are weak'," he said. "I forgive all the people who are involved in this."
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