This morning’s interview with NewsX World (India) on their hourly news bulletin, minutes 4.40 to 10.20, focused on Zelensky’s latest hopes for bringing European and US troops into Ukraine to ‘assure its security,’ now for purposes of holding elections, and also on the likely scenario here in Brussels next week when Ursula von der Leyen plans to impose an unprecedented ‘qualified majority’ voting rule over the indefinite extension of the freeze on Russian state assets in order to promote their collateralization for purposes of massive loans to Ukraine. I foresee a very contentious meeting that may end up bringing down von der Leyen and like-minded leaders of EU Member States.
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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. View all posts by gilbertdoctorow