Lavrov Warns Europe: Russia accuses European Union of escalating Ukraine conflict| NewsX World
This brief interview was meant to be in anticipation of Zelensky’s visit to Miami today for talks with Donald Trump.
The full hourly news bulletin from which this interview has been extracted above, may be seen here:
I use this opportunity to note that my virtually daily conversations with the Indian global broadcaster NewsX World are not the only expert opinion of the Russia-Ukraine war that this broadcaster puts on air. Youtube this morning sent me the link to a NewsX World interview with another commentator on the war, this time an Indian professor based in Delhi, who delivered an analysis that is 180 degrees at variance with what I say and was wholly backing the Ukrainians as the peace-seekers versus the warlike Russians who only know how to bomb, bomb and bomb.
In previous months, at the start of my ‘collaboration’ with NewsX World, they tried to arrange panel discussions but when views of the panelists are so very contradictory, the debate easily turns ugly, as indeed happened. Hence the separate interviews which do serve their audience well, I believe.
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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