My colleague Paul Lookman has very kindly embedded in the latest posting on his website the link to a panel discussion on RT devoted to the Ukraine war.
My fellow panelists on the program were two prominent speakers on the subject who are very much in demand in the States and internationally: professor Nicolai Petro, a Ukraine expert at the University of Rhode Island, and Scott Ritter, a military intelligence and security expert with much relevant experience from his past government service.
The host, Peter Lavelle, has been the lead personality of Cross Talk since its inception 17 years ago.
Since the onset of the Great Censorship that Western governments and major media companies put in place in February, all of Cross Talk programs are no longer carried by youtube.com which is where most of their audience was concentrated. Live reception of RT is, of course, impossible in Europe and North America due to the prohibition on this channel. In the meantime, RT production people are preparing to place the shows on a new internationally accessible platform.
Paul Lookman has done us all a great service by finding the key to the door, and posting the show.
Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write.
Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975).
After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.
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2 thoughts on ““Cross Talk” on RT, Thursday, 31 March 2022”
A very nice panel, but a very annoying interviewer. Would have been interesting to hear more on issues where the speakers disagree. Instead, he kept interrupting every time the discussion got interesting.
Completely agree with the author on NATO getting embarrassed and trying to imagine the implications of this embarrassment on future events.
RT’s shows are also still available on their website, http://www.rt.com, and if streaming is unstable, they allow the episode to be downloaded for later viewing.
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A very nice panel, but a very annoying interviewer. Would have been interesting to hear more on issues where the speakers disagree. Instead, he kept interrupting every time the discussion got interesting.
Completely agree with the author on NATO getting embarrassed and trying to imagine the implications of this embarrassment on future events.
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RT’s shows are also still available on their website, http://www.rt.com, and if streaming is unstable, they allow the episode to be downloaded for later viewing.
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