As I have observed based on my participation in live broadcasts dealing with current Russia-related events on Iran’s Press TV, the productions are good professional journalism and the guests are notable. A couple of days ago this impression was further substantiated when I joined the Christian Science Monitor’s man in Moscow, Fred Weir, in analysis of the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Kherson and Zaporozhie oblasts to the Russian Federation.
A discussion with Fred Weir on Iran’s Press TV: latest Russian developments
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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. View all posts by gilbertdoctorow
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Had no trouble finding the post, but your mic is picking up a great deal of echo from what sounds like a bare room.
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Found it. Good, if quick, discussion. I’m afraid the conflict won’t be finished in this year as the Ukraine is still making some territorial gains around Lyman with, as insignificant as they are, are already being touted in the MSM as bringing the Ukrainian army close to victory…. There are reported advances in Kherson Oblast as well.
To my thinking, none of this really matters. The Russian Duma has yet to ratify the incorporation of the four Oblasts into Russia and, until that happens, Russia will simply play on the defensive. Once the legalities have completed, the Russian army will come into play in force and the land lost will very likely be regained rather quickly.
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Reblogged this on Calculus of Decay .
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Of 25 most frequently active opinion makers on Flemish and Dutch international relations generally, and the Ukraine crisis specifically, the most candid one, an Antwerp University professor, has communicated complot theories rather that facts that are supported by sources. I wrote a piece on the issue, see
https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/opiniemakers-over-de-oekraine-crisis-en-de-realiteit-over-de-hybride-oorlog-tegen-rusland/
The professor suggests that the Russians destroyed their own pipelines, reports that “a nuclear train” was spotted on its way to the Ukrainian border, and that the Russians make nuclear threats by dispatching their Belgorod attack submarine. Most importantly, the professor accuses the Russians of making nuclear threats now that they are “cornered in the war”, an accusation he does not substantiate by the Russian nuclear doctrine that precludes any first use.
In the current affairs programme ‘Terzake’ on Flemish public television channel VRT yesterday, the presenter was visibly concerned about a pan-European nuclear war. It apparently did not occur to her that all these messages are pure American and British propaganda. Academic opinion makers, who undoubtedly know the truth but who also propagate the mainstream narrative, bear great responsibility.
The first commenter compared the professor’s media performance with the shame Germans felt of their parents’ and grandparents’ turning a blind eye to the Nazi persecution. “They would have admired them, had they been braver”…
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