A pause for vacation and upcoming autumn events

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Dear readers,

Please note that I will be on vacation for two weeks from 22 September to 5 October. During this time, I will on some days have no access to the internet. Accordingly, I will not be doing any interviews, and will post articles on this site only if major international developments should occur.

Looking ahead, at the end of October I will participate in a Round Table discussion of the BRICS Summit in Kazan which I have already written about.  And for three weeks in November, I expect to be in St Petersburg and Moscow, from where I will be posting commentary on what I see in the shopping baskets of Russian consumers and what I hear about the war, about Russia’s mission in the world from old friends and from new acquaintances in different strata of society.

I look forward to your company on these pages.

G. Doctorow

P.S. – latest version of the BRICS event website: www.bricsbrussels.org

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Eine Pause für Urlaub und bevorstehende Herbstveranstaltungen

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,

bitte beachten Sie, dass ich vom 22. September bis zum 5. Oktober zwei Wochen lang im Urlaub sein werde. Während dieser Zeit werde ich an manchen Tagen keinen Zugang zum Internet haben. Dementsprechend werde ich keine Interviews führen und nur dann Artikel auf dieser Website veröffentlichen, wenn es zu größeren internationalen Entwicklungen kommt.

Ende Oktober werde ich an einer Diskussionsrunde zum BRICS-Gipfel in Kasan teilnehmen, über den ich bereits geschrieben habe. Im November werde ich voraussichtlich drei Wochen in St. Petersburg und Moskau verbringen und von dort aus Kommentare zu den Einkaufskörben russischer Verbraucher und zu dem, was ich von alten Freunden und neuen Bekannten aus verschiedenen Gesellschaftsschichten über den Krieg und die Mission Russlands in der Welt höre, veröffentlichen.

Ich freue mich auf Ihre Gesellschaft auf diesen Seiten.

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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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2 thoughts on “A pause for vacation and upcoming autumn events”

  1. Your opinions and thoughts are always appreciated. Thank you and enjoy the cool weather and beautiful colors of Autumn and Russia.

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  2. Are you going to spend some time at the cottage SW of St. Pete. I forget the name of the town. I always enjoy hearing about that and am jealous.

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