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A supporter of female punk band “Pussy Riot” shouts slogans outside the court where three members of the band are on trial in Moscow July 30, 2012. Three women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a “punk prayer” on the altar of Russia’s main cathedral went on trial on Monday in a case seen as a test of the long-time leader’s treatment of dissent during a new presidential term. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)
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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.
