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Misha Friedman

The World
Misha Friedman is a NYC-based documentary photographer with a background in humanitarian work. His recent long-term projects deal with corruption and patriotism in Russia and the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union. 
Lt. Maya Breslavski and her team detain a drunk driver after he attempted to flee the scene.
Conflict
Drug users are presumed criminals in Ukraine. New police training is aimed at changing that.
Health
The grip of HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa: Portraits of survivors and those who are gone
Vendors sell bike rentals, guided tours and memorabilia outside the main entrance to Mezhyhirya.
Global Politics
The unusual things you’ll see while touring the lavish estate of Ukraine’s ex-president (PHOTOS)
The the main club house inside Mezhgorye, the residence of Ukraine's ousted president Victor Yanukovych.
Conflict
Ukrainians vowed to turn their ex-president’s estate into a ‘Museum of Corruption.’ But it’s something else now.
Yana, 40 (left) with her social worker Olga. Yana has recently been released from prison and Olga helps Yana readjust to the everyday life. Mariupol 2016.
Conflict
Stigma, discrimination, violence: Among the internally displaced in Ukraine with HIV (Photos)