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Simon Shuster

MH17

Why Vladimir Putin likes to create problems only he can solve

Global Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has meddled in several international conflicts. It’s part of a pattern that helps him win support back home. Russian President Vladimir Putin has meddled in several international conflicts. It’s part of a pattern that helps him win support back home.

Eastern Ukraine

Time Magazine pulls its reporter from Ukraine after he’s captured by separatists — twice

Global Politics
Sergei Aksyonov, Crimea's pro-Russian prime minister, stands as a member of a pro-Russian self defense unit takes an oath to Crimea government in Simferopol on March 10, 2014. Russian forces consolidated their hold on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula on Monday,

Meet the paramilitary leader who claims to be running Crimea

Global Politics
Yanukovych

Five reasons why Ukraine’s ousted president might be hiding in Crimea

Global Politics
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) visits Team Ukraine House at the Olympic Park during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Games February 15, 2014.

Is Ukraine’s violence overshadowing Putin’s Olympics?

Sports
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Texas native Joy Womack (center) at a lesson at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in January 2012. Womack was the first American to graduate from the Moscow academy, and she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company right after.

American ballerina lobs a $10,000 accusation at the Bolshoi Company

Arts, Culture & Media

Texas native Joy Womack was the first American to be accepted to the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. She graduated a year ago, and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company, which was her childhood dream. A week ago, she quit, telling a Russian newspaper that a director told her to pay $10,000 for a solo.

Russian Prime Minister Putin rides with motorcycle enthusiasts during his visit to a bike festival in the southern Russian city of Novorossiisk. (Photo: Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool/ Reuters)

Vladimir Putin is Hog Wild for the Night Wolves

Conflict & Justice

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most avid fans are members of a Slavic motorcycle gang known as the Night Wolves. Anchor Aaron Schachter finds out more from journalist Simon Shuster, who’s written about Putin for Time Magazine.

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