Michael McKay

Posted March 23rd, 2012 at 6:14 am (UTC+0)
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1st Sgt. Michael McKay, center, 39, of Clarksville, Tenn., with the U.S. Army’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky., counts fellow soldiers boarding a C-130 cargo plane as they begin the trip home upon completion of a deployment Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 at Forward Operating Base Sharana in Paktika province, Afghanistan. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division is returning home after a year in Afghanistan as the last brigade to deploy as part of President Obama’s 30,000 troop surge. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

James Brooke
James Brooke is the Russia/CIS bureau chief for Voice of America. A lifelong journalist, he covered West Africa, Brazil, the American Rocky Mountain States, Canada, and Japan/Korea for The New York Times. A resident of Moscow since 2006, he was first Bloomberg bureau chief for the region. In 2010, he joined VOA. In addition to writing Russia Watch, his weekly blog, he also does video, radio and web reports from Russia and the former USSR.

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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.

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