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Russian gay-rights activists fly their national flag next to a poster with a caricature painting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Berlin, June 23, 2012. The annual street parade parade is a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lifestyles and denounces discrimination and exclusion. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY – Tags: SOCIETY)
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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.
