This particular interview had considerable material on the key issues of the day in US -Russian relations.
As from minute 4.30 through minute 12.30, we discuss:
– the ongoing talks in Abu Dhabi to end the Ukraine war about which, I maintain, the real subject is the terms of Ukrainian capitulation to the Russian territorial and other demands
-the negligible likelihood that US access to Ukrainian mineral rights will be a point of leverage for the Ukrainians in these talks
-the possibility that the West can persuade China to apply pressure on Russia to end the war, which I consider to be illusory
Further on this podcast, there is a very good analysis by a Chinese commentator of what terms would have to be set in any future arms limitations agreements to which China becomes a party. Then from minute 18.45 to 22.00, I discuss with the presenter Russia’s ‘crocodile tears’ over the expiration of the New START arms limitation treaty.
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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