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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My main criticism of that Vladimir Putin’s portrait in 2024 (see the “Novaya Gazetta”) is that he is not properly dressed as the Marshall of the Great Russian Imperial Realm should be. Surely it is rather easy to predict that shortly after the 2012 elections Russia’s constitution will be amended to provide, among other ‘upgrades’, for a more honorific title for the Head of State of the Great Russian Realm.