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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his address at the opening of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in St Petersburg June 21, 2012. Putin sought to reassure foreign investors on Thursday that Russia was committed to liberal reforms and privatisation and signalled to opponents that he would not allow protests to develop into civil unrest. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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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.
