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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The Esperanto community in both Russia and the USA would be eager for your interview. As things deteriorated in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, dozens of Europeans, Russians, Ukrainians and a handful of Americans debated the crisis in Esperanto. I could not imagine having a similar dialogue (not all agreed) in English. The essence of the Esperanto movement remains one who believes in the message of Zamenhof. International friendship, at least via correspondence, if not face to face will proceed a stable peace. Did the Cold War really ever end?