What may we expect from the Trump-Putin meeting next week? Various opinions set out by Sputnik Globe in the past hour
Now that both American and Russian spokespersons have confirmed that a face-to-face meeting between the presidents is likely before the end of next week, with Dubai in the United Arab Emirates designated tentatively as the venue, news agencies on all sides are busy collecting expert opinions on what we may come out of the summit.
Earlier today, I had a 45-minute discussion of this very question with Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of Southeast Norway. When the video becomes freely available I will re-post it here. Do not expect more than guesswork. It is simply not possible to read tea leaves before the tea has been served. However, I have tried to be imaginative in describing what would have justified Vladimir Putin to accede so quickly to the proposal of a meeting with Trump initiated by the American side and what might be achieved when they do get together. Readers/viewers may well be surprised by my predictions.
In the meantime, I offer below the link to an article just published by Sputnik International offering the views of several experts, myself included.
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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The professor should take a bow. He was right all along. An amazing bit of prescient writing and youtube analysis. The professor has morphed into a prophet . Well done.
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The professor should take a bow. He was right all along. An amazing bit of prescient writing and youtube analysis. The professor has morphed into a prophet . Well done.
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