After losing six straight fights between December 2001 and February 2003, Datsik pursued a career in kickboxing and appeared in his final MMA bout on August 23, 2006.[2] He later seemingly disappeared completely, leading to widespread rumors that he had died in a train wreck. These rumors, however, were set to rest, when it was reported in March 2007 he was alive and well, after being detained for his part in the robbery of various mobile phone shops in St. Petersburg.[3]
Datsik reportedly had obsessive antisemitic and anti-Christian views, while exalting Slavic paganism. The official expert analysis on his mental sanity asserted that he claimed Jesus Christ was a Mossad agent, whereas Datsik himself was the son of Perun.[4] In the analysis he was concluded to suffer from schizophrenia and avoided criminal charges.[5] He was first locked in a high-security mental institution for therapy but he was transferred to a low-security psychiatric clinic in July 2010.
In August 2010 he escaped, by tearing a hole in the wire fence around the low security clinic, apparently using a blanket