'Overweight' ballerina rejoins Bolshoi

Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova triumphantly returned to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre today, after a more than two month long battle to be reinstated in the company.

Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova triumphantly returned to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre today, after a more than two month long battle to be reinstated in the company.

Flanked by her lawyer and a bodyguard driver, Volochkova, occasionally looking teary-eyed, collected all the necessary documents from the theatre administration to allow her to return to work.

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