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Putin and Romney: Back to the Cold War?

Posted April 2nd, 2012 at 7:34 pm (UTC+0)
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Americans living in Moscow are suffering from mental whiplash. During Russia’s recent presidential election, we enjoyed the moral high ground. Our politicians, we thought smugly, would never stoop to reviving the Cold War to wake up their conservative bases. But, in a city where snow fell on April Fool’s Day, it’s dangerous to walk with […]

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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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