A gift to Russian speakers: yesterday’s ‘Judging Freedom’ in Russian voice-over

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From time to time Russian social media re-publish my interviews on Judging Freedom with a Russian language voice-over on the Russian answer to youtube: rutube.ru This usually occurs some time after the initial release by Judge Napolitano’s youtube channel.

However, yesterday’s discussion of the logic for Trump’s sudden wish to seize Greenland obviously caught the fancy of Russian elites and four hours ago it already was posted on the Russian net.

It has been given the title: “Trump has lost his mind. How will Russia react?”

One Comment has already posted: “Russia won’t react any which way. It never laid claims to Greenland. And the United States should first give some thought to its fleet of icebreakers.” Note, the United States apparently has just one functioning ice breaker. The Russians are closing in on having 100.

https://rutube.ru/video/0523f3097dcb7699aba231016d8a39fb/?ysclid=m5qvlzjmze442366106

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Ein Geschenk an russischsprachige Menschen: „Judging Freedom“ von gestern mit russischem Voice-over

Von Zeit zu Zeit veröffentlichen russische soziale Medien meine Interviews zu „Judging Freedom“ mit russischem Voice-Over auf der russischen Antwort auf YouTube: rutube.ru. Dies geschieht in der Regel einige Zeit nach der Erstveröffentlichung durch den YouTube-Kanal von Judge Napolitano.

Die gestrige Diskussion über die Logik hinter Trumps plötzlichem Wunsch, Grönland zu erobern, hat jedoch offensichtlich das Interesse der russischen Eliten geweckt und wurde bereits vor vier Stunden im russischen Netz veröffentlicht.

Es wurde mit dem Titel versehen: „Trump hat den Verstand verloren. Wie wird Russland reagieren?“

Ein Kommentar wurde bereits gepostet: ‚Russland wird in keiner Weise reagieren. Es hat nie Ansprüche auf Grönland erhoben. Und die Vereinigten Staaten sollten sich zunächst Gedanken über ihre Flotte von Eisbrechern machen.‘ Beachten Sie, dass die Vereinigten Staaten offenbar nur einen einzigen funktionierenden Eisbrecher besitzen. Die Russen nähern sich der Zahl von 100.

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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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