News X interview yesterday: a foretaste of today’s ‘Judging Freedom’ chat

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My discussion with India’s News X broadcaster yesterday focused on the inadequacy of Russia’s response so far to the terror attacks on Bryansk and Kursk, and more importantly to the drone attacks on the RF air bases which are home to the country’s nuclear triad heavy bombers.

I invite the Community to have a listen because this is a foretaste of what I expect to discuss at greater length with more  transparency, less tact on ‘Judging Freedom’ this afternoon. My position is that Moscow has not yet accepted the reality that it must take greater risks in its relations with the West if it is to win this war within the window of opportunity it presently enjoys.

My segment on this video is minute 11.30 to minute 21.46

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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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