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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets with members of the Valdai international discussion group of experts in Krasnogorsk outside Moscow November 11, 2011. Putin expressed doubt on Friday that the European Financial Stability Facility and the IMF have enough resources to overcome the euro zone crisis and said the “collapse” of Italy would be a catastrophe that must be avoided. REUTERS/Maxim Shipenkov/Pool (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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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.
