Czech Missile Defense

Posted March 28th, 2012 at 6:01 pm (UTC+0)
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FILE the Jan. 20, 2007 file photo shows a passenger car in front of a newly built NATO air-defense radar base near Nepolisy, some 85 kilometers (53 miles) east from Prague, Czech Republic. U.S. and Czech officials said the Czech Republic will no longer take part in U.S. missile defense plans. The Czech defense minister Alexander Vondra told the Associated Press Wednesday, June 15, 2011 that his country withdrew in frustration at a minor role in a new U.S. plan. (AP Photo/CTK, Alexandra Mlejnkova, file)

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James Brooke is the Russia/CIS bureau chief for Voice of America. A lifelong journalist, he covered West Africa, Brazil, the American Rocky Mountain States, Canada, and Japan/Korea for The New York Times. A resident of Moscow since 2006, he was first Bloomberg bureau chief for the region. In 2010, he joined VOA. In addition to writing Russia Watch, his weekly blog, he also does video, radio and web reports from Russia and the former USSR.

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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.

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