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Author: James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

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Russia Watch: ‘Russia’s Tibet’ opens to the outside world

September 18, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Word of the killings of four American diplomats in Libya took 24 hours to reach me last week. That was

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Europe News Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Vlad in Vlad: Forging Russia’s first hot city on the Pacific Rim

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at

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Business Europe News 

Deal by deal, Russia building ties with Asia

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Chinese President Hu Jintao announced Saturday more than $150 billion in spending on infrastructure projects as part of efforts to

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Putin’s palaces, yachts, cars and watches: An opposition guide to Russia’s rich and famous

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

“I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night.” Vladimir Putin summing up his first

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News Perspectives World 

From Lance Armstrong to Russian Arctic Oil: From accountability to impunity

August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

There is a golden thread that links Lance Armstrong, the disgraced American cyclist, to the Greenpeace climbers clambering about the

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Kremlin x Pussy Riot: Girls win!

August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” – Alexander Pope, 1735 This summer, Vladimir Putin tried to break three of

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Europe News 

Communist symbol ban spreads among Russia’s neighbors

August 16, 2012June 2, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Ukraine

In Lviv, Western Ukraine nationalists fought last year to block communists from bringing red flags to the city’s World War

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Russia wins gold for yachts, palaces and penthouses

August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

With London’s Summer Olympics over, the spotlight and the torch now shift to Russia, host of the Sochi 2014 Winter

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News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Got a meeting with Vladimir, the Tardy? Bring a good book

August 8, 2012August 8, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

On a sun splashed hillside overlooking the Black Sea, the President of Ukraine and half of his cabinet gathered July

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