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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.
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Gilbert Doctorow 
Thank you,
Excellent work in disposing of newsprint that wrapped a rotting red-herring.
Again, excellent, thank you!
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I’m convinced you have Down syndrome.
If the Russians had this Harry Potter weapon, why would they blow their load and fire off nearly ever Iskander in their inventory? Why would they buy ballistic missiles from Iran?
Who needs magical weapons when you have useful idiots speaking to audiences reaching dozens of people?
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Although I have lost some respect for AL in recent times he does seem to have a point here as you do seem to have a fascination for wonder weapons. (No doubt you touched a nerve of AL in an earlier article.) To my mind it would be a good start if the “Russians” were able to the stop the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk. In truth, I have no understanding of why that is so difficult. Presumably AL could explain this as he knows such things as how many Iskanders are in the Russian inventory.
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Same reason North Korean artillery strikes against Seoul would be hard to stop. The guns are heavily bunkered in defence lines built up over years. The real surprise is the RAF hasn’t done more to hit the rail-lines & infrastructure supplying the AFU in the east until recently.
As for AL ”experts” have been telling all and sundry that Russia ran out of conventional weapons back in March.
His tiresome personal attacks are reflective of the fact, that Ukraine brings the inner droog out of its supporters.
Which is fitting given the great national tradition that polity choose to embrace is that of Bandera.
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Yes, AL’s knowledge of Russia’s military procurement sources and weapons supplies, military strategy, etc. is impressive. Of a kin with Boris Johnson’s deep understandind of what the “sanctions from hell” would do to the Russian economy.
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