Another interesting ‘Big Debate’ on NewsX: Russia & Ukraine Swap 372 POWs As Trump Pitches U.S Control of Zaporizhzhia
Yesterday’s ‘Big Debate’ brought me together with two high value Indian panelists and a remarkably reasonable Ukrainian. One of the Indians was Prabhu Dayal, a former Consul General in New York City from 2009 to 2014. The other, Robinder Sachdev, is the founder president of the Imagindia Institute. His page on their website informs us that he is an expert on geopolitics, diplomacy and the affairs of the Indian Diaspora. He has lived and worked in the U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan and Dubai, and is currently based in New Delhi. The Ukrainian was Ruslan Bortnik, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics.
The low visitor numbers on this video are not to be taken negatively. NewsX and its companion channel NewsX World are just months old and are building their audience from zero. As I know from my very first appearances on their panel discussions, they had a very difficult time attracting serious participants. In particular this was true of their Ukrainian guests who were initially low-level propagandists. This is no longer true, as you may judge for yourself.
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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