Putin stepped in, and now 100 whales will be released from cages
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week that Putin had personally stepped in to handle the matter of 'whale jail.'
A killer whale performs during a press visit at the Marineland Zoo in Antibes before its reopening, six months after the flooding that affected the French Riviera in October 2015, in Antibes, France, March 17, 2016.(photo credit: ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS)