A lengthy chat with Professor Glenn Diesen

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A lengthy chat with Professor Glenn Diesen

It was an honor to be invited by Glenn Diesen for a video-recorded chat yesterday to discuss latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war. Though we spoke prior to the dramatic events in the Oval Office when Trump and Zelensky had an open spat before the mass media, nearly everything in the recording remains highly relevant, including the outlook for the war’s end.

Glenn Diesen is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway who bravely sets out his own well-informed and independent views on Russia and the security interests of Europe. He attracts to his video interviews Jeffrey Sachs and other well-known authorities. 

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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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