Interview on this morning’s hourly news bulletin of NewsX World (India)
My appearance on this hourly bulletin begins at minute 2.55 and ends at minute 11.50
NewsX World is generally very good at keeping abreast of breaking news and quite often they are briefing me before we go on air about developments not yet reported by the Russians, by Western mainstream, not to mention Alternative Media. Today, however, they were misled by Macron, by Zalensky and by Mainstream into thinking that Washington has agreed to participate in the ‘peacekeeping mission’ being proposed by the Coalition of the Willing that met in Paris yesterday. Accordingly, I jumped in to point out that Politico this morning says that Witkoff and Kushner did not sign the Declaration of the Coalition yesterday; they were merely present as observers. This same point was made in the latest issue of Russia’s leading newspaper Gazeta.ru which may be considered as a Kremlin mouthpiece.
Also of interest in this interview was our discussion of Russian efforts to provide security to an oil tanker at sea that has re-flagged itself as Russian and is being pursued by American naval vessels. Here I see in the U.S. attack under way a prime example of the utterly irresponsible policies being implemented by the ‘power ministries’ in Washington now that Donald Trump has made his deal with these devils.
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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