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Interior Ministry officers check documents of passengers at a railway station of Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, April 23, 2013. Pass the metal scanner on arrival at Sochi station or watch Cossacks patrol the streets of the 2014 Winter Olympics venue and you know it did not take the Boston Marathon bombs to alert Russian organisers. Picture taken April 23, 2103. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA – Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW POLITICS SPORT OLYMPICS TRAVEL) – RTXYY5I
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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.
