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May 11, 2012

Russia's Training Wheels

Julia Ioffe, New Yorker

AP Photo

Over the past couple of days, I've been asked many times, by people from around the world, how I came to take a photo of the boy on a bike with training wheels, facing a row of Russian riot police. That story is simple: it was a complete accident. What is harder to explain is how the image fits into the larger picture of what has been happening in Russia in the past few days.

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