Let’s shake off August doldrums, and play a mind stretching game. Let’s imagine democratic, free market Georgia as . . . the Cuba of the Caucasus. For both countries, whether in the Caribbean or in the Caucasus, threat numero uno is the Colossus of the North. This Northern Empire has a long history of interfering […]
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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.
