www.fontanka.ru/2010/03/24/156/24.03.2010... translation from: http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_skating/164064.html 
- Was it difficult for you to make the decision not to participate in the World Cup?
- After the Olympics I wanted to make a program in which I intended to include two quadruple toe loop, but I overtrain ... I've just been in Turin and I drove past the Palavela, where I won the European Championships, Olympic Games. And do you think it was possible that I did not wanted to perform at the 100th World championship in my favorite city? Course I wanted. I feel a little offended when people say that I was afraid to go there. I waited till the last minute, practiced, but when out of ten attempts to perform a quadruple I only succeed in two ...
- Did the Federation put pressure on you, for you to compete?
- It was the verdict of doctors, stating that I can not put pressure on the right leg, that I cannot jump quadruples and triple axels. They put pressure on me at the 2005 World championship and it ended up with me having two surgeries on the inguinal rings, and I still did it, I had a shot, I skated on the QR and the short program. But now I didn't wanted to end my career over one championship.
- What will be your treatment?
- Naturally, I will ask for the best specialists, the ones that make operation of big athletes, from football and hockey. I will ask them to do everything that is possible so I can skate for another four years. I will make every effort to recover faster. On May 1st I will be meeting with doctors in Munich. I have a problem in my Achilles tendon, with the meniscus and with a cruciate ligament. But it is all reparable. I better do that now and I will perform at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
- Do you expect to succeed in four years?
- I understand that it would be insanely hard. Young athletes are growing up. You have Artur Dmitriev, Jr., who trains with Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin, he did three quadruple jumps yesterday. The sport is moving forward ... So I will not be easy. But I didn't skate for three and a half years and I know how to get better. Especially now, I will compete. We'll have new specialists, including for choreography. There will be new coaches for general physical training. I want to please people, and nobody will not stop me.
- What would you like to see on the new President of Russia figure skating?
- The main thing that the president fulfilled his duties with dignity, as we athletes do. But I think that the federation should lead the young man who knows the sport from the inside, who knows foreign languages. In my opinion, a good candidate will be Anton Sikharulidze ... A billion dollars is allocared for sports in Russia, that's a lot. When posited athletes such and such a sum, then it must reach them, as well as salaries for coaches should be decent. Why in 2007 I had to pay my operation at my own expense? And in 2005, my coach Alexei Mishin asked: "Please pay the accounts" You have to understand that I have a life too. But I want to have our young athletes have everything normal, so they have decent living conditions.
- How often do you see your son?
- Oh, I will tell you about my son with happiness! He is such an stunning child! In June, he will be four years old.Thank god, we see now every day. Now everything has changed. He started calling me uncle, as he was taught, but now he callms me daddy. He said ti me: "I do not want to go with my mother, I want to be with you." For me it was very sad when I came, and my son called me uncle.
- Will Egor follow your steps?
- No. I don't want thim to go into figure skating, it's such a hard sport. Although when he was two years, we put him on skates, and he not just walked, he ran on them! When he turns 4 I want him to do hocket and then when he turns 6, football. I want him to be a professional athlete. I think he has alll the preconditions to become one.
- Does your son carries your last name?
- I have not watched his birth certificate. On one hand, I do not want to be upset but on the other hand... Masha told me something recently "I have changed my last name to Plushenko", But I think she has not changed Egor's... But I'm happy that the ice in our relationship has broken.
- Are you going to "Eurovision"?
- No. That was another life and this one is another. I was invited, but I have no time, and no desire to either. I am not interested in show business. I'm completely focused on sports. I want to make a perfect program.
- Is it true that you are writing a second book?
- Yes, it will be more like a diary. I am constantly writing blogs, for example, when flying in an airplane. The book will have a lot of revelations. I have matured and I am ready to tell the truth. It will be quite strong.
- Where is your house now?
- I live around the world. My house are the planes and hotels.
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In case you are asking, AFAIK, Egor has only been shown twice, when he turned 1 (and it was paparazzi pictures) and when he was 2, during Maria's second wedding.
This is a very blurry picture of Egor (unfortunately there aren't more), there were some paparazzi pics when he was 1 but they are no longer online and my PC is far from me
This is a picture of Maria's second marriage...
