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Questions swirl as Russian skater awaits Beijing Olympics doping fate posted at 11:50:04 UTC via The Times of Israel Moscow is once again caught up in a doping scandal, this time surrounding 15-year-old Kamila Valieva Post Link Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader Putin, Biden plan high-stakes phone call in Ukraine crisis posted at 11:53:16 UTC by JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press via NewsNation Now MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply and the U.S. announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital. Before talking to Biden, Putin is to have a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the crisis. Russia has massed troops near the Ukraine border and has sent troops to exercises in neighboring Belarus, but insistently
