RN News:  ‘Sixty Minutes’ now available in English voice-over

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As readers of these pages know, I make extensive use of Russia’s leading news programs and political talk shows directed at their domestic audience for my presentations of what the country’s political elites are thinking. 

At times I have received reader comments asking me to provide links to given programs that I found especially worthwhile, and usually there was disappointment from those same readers that these programs were available on line only in the original Russian language.

Well, my friends, I am pleased to inform you that one of the best news and analysis shows, Russia’s own Шестьдесять минут or Sixty Minutes is now available on youtube in an English voice over edition. Here is what I just found. It appears to be the original’s morning broadcast from today.

I expect viewers to confirm my own conclusion that these programs are vastly more professional and valuable to those seeking out Russian positions on world events than is RT, where foreign guest journalists and producers always had an unduly large influence on programming.

A word about the co-hosts:  Yevgeny Popov has had a high-profile career in the Russian news group. He spent several years in New York as their bureau chief. Aside from his show time work, he is a member of the State Duma from the ruling party, United Russia. His wife, Olga Skabeyeva, is also a top-notch journalist though she can be fairly aggressive with panelists.

It is worth noting that in CNN’s latest news segment dedicated to ‘what Russian television is saying about the inauguration’ they have put up on the screen video spots taken from Sixty Minutes and also from the talk show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.   But whereas CNN has produced this montage exceptionally, the Russian television program show lengthy video excerpts from Fox News, Sky News, Deutsche Welle and other American and European broadcasters.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

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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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  3. It seems, sometimes Trump has some good ideas, but lacks a plan to execute strategy to achieve results. E.G. During his first term, his ‘courting’ Putin was not a bad plan to draw Russia from China. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, & Nuland totally blew up that idea and forced Russia to pivot east. Trump’s Doctrine to commandeer the Western Hemisphere is not implausible. However, this should have been introduced by the US years ago in response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The problem is that US demands to rule over its associates in the Americas and Europe instead of cultivating their success. So instead of developing lines of communication and trade between natural allies the US prefers to suck them dry via the IMF, World Bank, & debt. In the long run, Trump’s bombast, America First, may no different than the neocon’s idea of ‘full spectrum dominance’. The objectives are the same but the tactics are different. Note: MBS’s willingness to pay a tribuite ($500 billion investment in US) is telling. Preservation of the monarchies and ruling families is the first order of business in a ‘rules based order’.

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