NewsX World: Putin announces military modernization
This midday interview on the Indian television station NewsX World featured several items from breaking news, including President Putin’s remarks at the ongoing Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Putin said that Russia will be making available to the CSTO Member States its latest military hardware that has proven itself on the field of battle. As I say here, providing ‘toys for the boys’ is a sensible way of raising loyalty among these former republics of the USSR and of keeping out of Central Asia, in particular, the meddling US, British and French spoilers.
I will be attending a conference on Eurasian security at the Russian Embassy in Brussels this evening and if there is any information of value to the Community that comes out of that event I will post it here tomorrow.
The other key item in this video concerns Erdogan’s response to President Macron’s efforts to bring Turkey into a British and French force that would be introduced into Ukraine ahead of implementation of a cease-fire to provide security to the Ukrainians.
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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