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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JAN. 7- 8 ** Construction continues on the second ballistic missile interceptors field at Ft. Greely near Fairbanks, Alaska, Dec. 8, 2005. As many as 10 missile interceptors were set to be installed at Fort Greely in Alaska’s interior in 2005, joining the first six interceptors installed the previous year. But the final count was only two. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
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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.
