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In this photo made Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, an illustration a Labor Migrant’s Handbook reads HIP prevention in St. Petersburg, Russia. The brochure containing practical advice on how to deal with border guards, police and other authorities was illustrated with images in which migrant workers were represented as paint brushes, brooms and other tools. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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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.
