Today’s solo interview on NewsX, India : Massive Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russia’s Engels Airbase | 54 Drones Downed | War Escalates

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This eight-minute interview this morning opened with discussion of Ukraine’s drone attack yesterday on the Engels air base in Central Russia which was widely reported in Western media, as for example on CNN, but has hardly been mentioned on Russian news, which focused instead on their devastating drone attack on Odessa in the same time frame.

I would not characterize these events as an escalation, just ‘business as usual’ in this horrendous war.

Latest reports indicate that the U.S. will be conducting talks in parallel with Russian and Ukrainian working groups in Jedda on Monday. Russia’s mention of whom it is sending to the talks indicates that this will be very concrete and detailed elaboration of terms for the cease fire and follow-on peace. Curiously, Western media have not picked up the fact that one of the two key Russian negotiators is a high FSB (KGB) officer who has been in charge of relations with the former Soviet republics. I believe the logic here is that Vladimir Putin is sending to the talks people whose loyalty to Russia’s national interests is above question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0gx2g1pGo

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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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