It is remarkable and a testament to the discernment of Russian social, political and business elites that the ‘Judging Freedom’ interviews conducted by Judge Andrew Napolitano and posted on his youtube channel among other social media receive their attention week by week and that private internet channels like rutube.ru re-post these interviews with Russian voice-over to magnify the domestic audience in Russia.
I have done no systematic follow-up on the Judging Freedom interviews, though I do know that excerpts from Napolitano’s chats with John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs are presented on the leading political talk shows in Russia including ‘Evening with Vladimir Solovyov’.
As for myself, this is the third week in a row when my appearances on Judging Freedom have been re-posted on the runet within 12 hours of their first distribution on youtube.com. And whereas such re-postings were in the past done using machine translations and synthesized voice, the present re-postings use high-level human translators and excellent narrators.
Here is the link to the voice-over edition of yesterday’s interview:
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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