Today’s interview has been split by the broadcaster into two podcasts:
Major Russian oil refinery burns after overnight drone attack near Yaroslavl
US Weighs Ukraine Patriot production
I am grateful to the Indian broadcaster for allowing me to go beyond the headlines to explore the underlying issues:
that the Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure are well planned and executed using the most advanced US and European drones, causing significant disruption of the Russian fuel supply to consumers across the country and raising the unpopularity of Putin’s war of attrition strategy. These drone attacks demonstrate the irrelevance of Zelensky’s call for Patriots, which, if received, would be useless against Russian hypersonic missiles that are now being used by Moscow in considerable numbers. Moreover, Kiev’s air defense is sufficient to keep Russian bombers away from its air space, depriving Moscow of the possibility to use its much more powerful glide bombs
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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