"Ah, that's an old bit of advice I got from Yakov," Victor chuckles at the line thought, not having considered it in a while, "When he was a skater in the sixties, he was pressured to only speak Russian as a matter of national pride. It cost him a lot of international fans. More people speak English, so I try to speak that for interviews!" A gentle chuckle.

"And I've heard the accent is sexiest in English!" Not from Yakov, of course, he doesn't give a damn what people think is sexy.