| Older: Setting the Pace for Russia, Moscow Tames Its Excesses |
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev walks along a helicopter pad in front of the Russian White House, headquarters of the federal government, in Moscow, March 22, 2013. REUTERS/Ekaterina Shtukina/RIA Novosti/Pool (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS) ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS – RTR3FC71
| Older: Setting the Pace for Russia, Moscow Tames Its Excesses |
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.
