NewsX (India): Israel Targets Iranian Sites In Tehran Bombing
This interview taken yesterday by NewsX is part of the broadcaster’s live news hour. I appear at minute 8.45 and leave at minute 15.15. Those of you with the time and patience to spare may savor the news presenter’s reportage on the Israel-Iran war which precedes my interview. The broadcaster’s editorial position is, shall we say, equivocal.
The subject of our chat was in fact the gathering of the G7 that ended yesterday with few agreed points in their press release because Donald Trump had left a day before, precisely to avoid entering into discussion of the Ukraine-Russia war on which his position is totally at variance with the other six members. Indeed, one can say that this institution has become a G6+1, with the USA as odd man out. In this regard, we see now a new iteration of what existed up to 2014 when it was a G7+1, with Russia as odd man out.
The main consequence of Trump’s early departure is that Volodymyr Zelensky who came primarily for talks with the American president was on a fool’s errand. He left the meeting with nothing in his hands other than the pennies for the poor offered by Canadian Prime Minister Carney.
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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