[3] Previously, he was the artistic director of the ballet at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, serving in this capacity from 2008 to 2011.

[6] Among his repertoire, Filin danced as Colas in La Fille Mal Gardée, the Teacher in The Lesson, and as Classical Dancer in The Bright Stream, a role for which he received the prestigious award Golden Mask.

This incident put his career on hold for several months, before returning to the dance scene in the second half of the following year.

He stated that Bolshoi Ballet Company dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko had hired both him and another man called Andrei Lipatov to attack Filin.

[15] Various motives have been presented by Russian police officials, primarily focusing on "personal hostile relations linked to their professional activities".

Dmitrichenko stated during a bail hearing that he was frustrated with the inequitable and "unjust" allocation of funds distributed to dancers in the company.

"[13] At that point, the judge denied bail, which resulted in incarceration for six weeks, while investigators and attorneys prepared for the trial.