Yesterday’s panel discussion hosted by broadcaster News X (ITV India) demonstrates that the producers of this news program are in the process of finding their unique place in Indian media. They are now presenting experts holding contradictory positions on the nature of the Russia-Ukraine war and on its likely outcome.
Readers of these pages will not be surprised by my on-air observations. However, I strongly recommend that they also watch the Indian diplomat who spoke just after me. Her thinking is refreshing and offers hope that India will come down off the fence and be more wholeheartedly dedicated to BRICS.
Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)
NewsX World (Indien): Russische Truppen überrennen Kurakhove
Die gestrige Podiumsdiskussion des Senders News X (ITV India) zeigt, dass die Produzenten dieser Nachrichtensendung dabei sind, ihren einzigartigen Platz in den indischen Medien zu finden. Sie präsentieren nun Experten, die widersprüchliche Positionen zur Natur des Russland-Ukraine-Krieges und zu seinem wahrscheinlichen Ausgang vertreten.
Die Leser dieser Seiten werden von meinen Beobachtungen während der Sendung nicht überrascht sein. Ich empfehle ihnen jedoch dringend, sich auch die indische Diplomatin anzusehen, die direkt nach mir gesprochen hat. Ihre Denkweise ist erfrischend und lässt hoffen, dass Indien sich nicht mehr unschlüssig verhält, sondern sich voll und ganz der BRICS-Gruppe widmet.
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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