Last night’s discussion in Press TV, Iran of the crisis in Syria

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This ten-minute segment from last night’s Press TV news round-up at a little after midnight Iranian time opens with statements from the Iranian Foreign Minister at the end of consultations with his counterparts from Iraq and Syria on how to deal with the HTS rebel advances in the northwest of Syria these past several days.

I was kindly given the microphone to present the Russian perspective on the military and geopolitical situation in Syria amidst a surprise rapid attack that has already captured Aleppo and Hama and is threatening Homs. The Islamic extremists of HTS are being encouraged and assisted by the US, Israel and Turkey.

http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131888

Later today I will be with the Indian broadcaster WION in a televised discussion of the most recent developments on the ground in Syria, and of reports in the UK press that Bashar al-Assad’s family has fled to Moscow now that Damascus itself may be threatened.

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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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