Two short interviews with News X World (India)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was one of the first world leaders to arrive in Tianjin, China today for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that opens tomorrow and Indian broadcasters have been very busy securing commentary from their own and foreign experts on what may be accomplished at the summit.

Indeed, at various times today I joined two competing Indian broadcasters to contribute to their coverage. The first, News X World, recorded two segments for their hourly news, one on the Summit in Tianjin and the other on latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.

I offer the respective links below. 

2025 SCO Summit Opens in Tianjin, Key focus on Security, Trade and Technology

My own brief appearance on this program which features World X staff journalists in a number of different locations comes at minute 13.  Of particular interest, I think is the chat between the News journalist and a very well spoken CGTN journalist from China.

Russia Strikes Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk

This video, which was recorded immediately after the preceding one, I was given the opportunity to provide what the presenter characterizes as “a fresh perspective” on the relationship of the European “friends” to the Ukrainian nation, as well as to mention the possibility of a ‘rabbit from the hat’ surprise two days from now if Donald Trump arrives in Beijing for the parade marking the end of WWII in the Pacific, as some Russian news outlets are suggesting.  I urge viewers to pay close attention to the time given to Ukrainian Prime Minister Svyrydenko’s speech at the UN condemning Russia’s continuing attacks: this is a sublime example of Orwellian inversion of reality in double talk.

Later today or tomorrow, when I receive the link to the panel discussion I participated in this afternoon with News X, the second broadcaster, I will post that here. The presenter and my fellow panelists were high level and the Community should find their remarks to be of value. I had the pleasure of offering some very unexpected thoughts on the chaos that Donald Trump has brought to U.S.-Indian relations which has left the Indians searching for answers to their woes.

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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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