Two interview segments in this afternoon’s NewsX World news bulletin

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Russia Says Iran Alone Can Decide on Uranium Removal Ahead Of US-Iran Nuclear Talks

Putin on non-renewal of New START Treaty

My discussion of this issue appears as from minute 20. As I say here, Putin is a politician, and politicians are known to lie. Russia’s Public Relations exercise on the non-renewal of the treaty should not be taken at face value. Both the US and Russia had good reasons not to renew it.  For the USA, they cannot be bound by the limits on numbers of warheads when they now want to add to their arsenal to counter China’s build-up lest they find themselves short of weapons in a two-front war with Russia and China. For Russia, the New START treaty imposed on them the obligation to keep their heavy bombers on the airfields in plain view with the result that many bombers were damaged or destroyed in a Ukrainian drone attack on airfields from Murmansk to Irkutsk that was very likely directed by the MI6 (UK) and the CIA (USA).

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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.

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