Star Dancer Arrested in Insane Russian Ballet Acid Attack  Pavel
Dmitrichenko, a star dancer at Moscow's legendary Bolshoi
Ballet, has apparently confessed to orchestrating an acid attack
that left the company's artistic director Sergei Filin with
burns to his face and eyes—an attack possibly motivated by
Filin's treatment of Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, another Bolshoi
dancer.  In a video police posted to the internet earlier today,
Dmitrichenko admitted to "organiz[ing] the attack, but not to
the extent that it occurred"; police later said that, as Filin
had long claimed, the motivation was a professional grudge.
Filin had been entering his apartment building when a man in a
mask threw acid into his eyes. He's now receiving treatment in
Germany, where doctors are attempting to recover as much of his
eyesight as possible.  Dmitrichenko, a lead soloist whom Filin
had cast as Ivan the Terrible last year, hadn't previously been
named as a suspect, but he had been known to fight with Filin
over the company's salar