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Activists hold signs that read in Portuguese, “Free the 30” and “Free Ana Paula,” during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 demanding the release of the 30 Greenpeace activists detained in Russia. On Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, Russian investigators charged the entire crew of a Greenpeace ship with piracy for a protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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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.
