James Brooke is VOA Moscow bureau chief, covering Russia and the former USSR. With The New York Times, he worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa, Latin America, Canada and Japan/Koreas. He studied Russian in college during the Brezhnev years, first visited Moscow as a reporter during the final months of Gorbachev, and then came back for reporting forays during the Yeltsin and early Putin years. In 2006, he moved to Moscow to report for Bloomberg. He joined VOA in Moscow in 2010. Follow Jim on Twitter @VOA_Moscow.
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President Obama’s friend for whom he will be more flexible after the election .. oh .. and our president bows to the commands of the Kremlin whether he can have permission to help the embattled Syrian freedom fighters .. struggling with the forty year dictatorial regime that has murdered peaceful demonstrators ..