I'm not a professional translater, but the article goes something like this:
Is Plushenko going to skip Cup of Russia?
It came to the attention of the journalists of "sovsport" that the threetimes world champion Evgenij Plushenko maybe won't participate in the the sixth event of grand prix, cup of Russia which will be held 25-28 november in the moscow sport arena "Luzhniki".
The reason -- unprepareness to the only gran prix event in which Plushenko originally wanted to participate at.
Based on the information which we posses, the athlete intented to prepare for the event by participate by doing a series of commersial skatings. However, just like sovsport allready informed, despite the letters from the president of the Russian skating union, the Internation Skating Union forbade the champion to be a part of any such show. Otherwise, he would be discvalified. That is the reason why the russian chose not to skate in Prag 5th november and in Budapest the 6th and was forced to return from Prag to Moscow.
When last thursday, we called Aleej Mishin, the trainer of Plushenko , he straighforwardly stated "We only finished our second practise after the break! The time which Plushenko spent in appereantly meaningless travel is lost. But the competition were training, repeating the elements. If I see that Zhenja (Plushenkos nickname) isn't prepared to execellently skate in the cup of Russia, then I think it is pointless to start. We cannot lose"
The athlete only has a number of days in order to make a final decision about skating in Moscow. And appereantly they are leaning towards skipping. Of course, without Plushenko the tournament will lose its appeal, like it did at the fourth grand prix event, NHK coup in Japan. The viewers then bought tickets to see Plushenko and when they found out he could not make it, they returned them.
From the other side, like Mishin correctly noted, we cannot risk. In Moscow, Evgenijs main competition will be Joubert, and also a strong american skater Weir. (By the way, the first one is being trained by Yagudin and the second by Tarasova). And defeat might result in psycological problems for Evginij. We can remind you that Plushenko, who lost the Grand Prix final to Sandhu last season and then the European championship to Jourbert appereantly suffered from some complexes. It was possibly not a coincidence that he was joined by a psycologist at his competitions.
For Plushenko, the European championships are ahead (24-30 january, Turin) and the world championship (14-20 march, Moscow) at which the tickets to the olympics will be at stake. According to Mishin, his pupil is also plaining to compete in the Russian championships, 4-7 january in Saint-Petersburg.
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Was happy to help
. Besides, the performance in general would be much higher at big competitions if more figure skaters used help. It is such a shame when talented skaters do mistakes simply because of their nerves...just remember the olympics 2002. 
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