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Maria Alyokhina, a member of female punk band “Pussy Riot”, smiles as she is escorted by police to a court in Moscow July 31, 2012. The trial of three members of a Russian female punk band continued on Tuesday, as they face up to seven years in jail for protesting against Vladimir Putin inside a Moscow cathedral, a prosecution they said was aimed at spreading fear and silencing dissent. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT)
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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.
