This panel discussion on the Indian global broadcaster News X (ITV India) was taped two days ago, when Presidents Xi and Putin spent one and a half hours in a video conference that covered a variety of topics, chief among them the new record for bilateral trade achieved in 2024 and common positions with respect to the Trump administration following the Trump-Xi telephone call that had taken place hours before.
I call attention to the statements by my fellow panelist Professor AK Pasha in New Delhi, who clearly is a BRICS supporter, who has a correct reading on Russia’s victorious position in the Ukraine war, and who does not project the anti-Chinese bias that you find so often in Indian broadcasting.
Putin and Xi Strengthen Ties Amid Trump’s Tough Stance on Russia and China | NewsX
This panel discussion on the Indian global broadcaster News X (ITV India) was taped two days ago, when Presidents Xi and Putin spent one and a half hours in a video conference that covered a variety of topics, chief among them the new record for bilateral trade achieved in 2024 and common positions with respect to the Trump administration following the Trump-Xi telephone call that had taken place hours before.
I call attention to the statements by my fellow panelist Professor AK Pasha in New Delhi, who clearly is a BRICS supporter, who has a correct reading on Russia’s victorious position in the Ukraine war, and who does not project the anti-Chinese bias that you find so often in Indian broadcasting.
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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