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A woman holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin outside the house where he was born in the town of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Tbilisi March 5, 2012. Dozens of Georgian communists gathered in Stalin’s hometown on Monday to mark the 59th anniversary of his death. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA – Tags: ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY POLITICS)
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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.
