The Pelle Neroth Taylor Show/The Pulse: an interview

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Over the past couple of years, I have on occasion been interviewed by one end or another branch of the TNT radio network which appears to operate in both the UK and in Australia.  My latest rendez-vous with those folks was last week when I was given 30 minutes on the Pelle Neroth Taylor Show (The Pulse).

Our chat covered my new book War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023 and how it complements other volumes dealing with the war such as Scott Horton’s Unprovoked. We discussed in particular what the failed peace negotiations of March-April 2022 should tell us about the chances of current peace talks in Istanbul succeeding. We discussed the reasons why Russia launched its Special Military Operation in February 2022 – both those that are best known, meaning the military strategic reasons, and those which were promoted most consistently to the Russian public, namely the obligation to defend their fellow Russian-speakers in the Donbas from an imminent invasion by Ukrainian armed forces that would have led to mass ethnic cleansing if not to outright genocide.  We also discussed in this interview the Bucha massacre that was a false flag operation engineered by MI6. And finally we talked about the recent revenge attacks by the Russians in response to terror and other provocations by the Ukrainians.

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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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