They seem to have a dancesportinfo page...doesn't that frequently happen after someone posts an article on the Russian site? maybe one of our Russian speakers can investigate
In spite of it all that he has been through, I still have a lot of respect for his dancing, and I wish him the best.
Sorry I didn't realize that counted!! Here's a link to the actual article (google translate ) http://www.dancesport.ru/news/n_4827.phtml
I saw the pm you sent me. But... 1) It is in Russian... I have no clue what he is talking about. 2) I am not here to post your source links for you...you need to do that yourself. As in the past, as always, when posting something of this nature we require the poster to provide the source link IN THE POST. If soemone hadn't posted it for you in this thread, I was going to lock it down tonight when I got home from work.
Slavik is a shorter form of his full name Vyacheslav, which means "more glory". http://www.behindthename.com/name/vyacheslav