The Ukrainian drone attack on President Putin’s countryside residence near the town of Valdai, midway between Moscow and Petersburg, has been sharply criticized by India, Pakistan and several other Global South countries notwithstanding Zelensky’s claim that no attack took place.
In the USA, there is active discussion of the incident, with many media outlets casting doubt on the Moscow allegations, in line with Zelensky.
Given the long trail of false flag incidents staged by Kiev with the help of the British going back to the first months of the war (the slaughter of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha by retreating Russian soldiers) and the repeated absurd suggestion by Kiev that Russians were attacking nuclear power plants that they themselves were operating or that they smashed dams to drown their own population and deprive them of hydropower electricity, it would be very strange to take seriously the vile propaganda now coming out of Kiev that is being disseminated in the West by the usual suspects.
This was the central issue of this morning’s interview on NewsX World beginning in minute 4.
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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