The BRICS Summit this weekend in India, 12 – 13 September, is receiving a great deal of attention in that country and major media have arranged extensive coverage, including on air panel discussions with expert commentators speaking for the founding BRICS member states.
In this regard, I will be participating in such a panel discussion arranged by News X World this afternoon. The producers are fairly quick in posting such proceedings in podcast format on the internet. Accordingly when I receive the link, I will share it here.
Tomorrow, Saturday and on Sunday I will be participating in the coverage of BRICS by two leading broadcasters, News X World and the Indian CNN channel. Here, too, as podcasts are posted, I will make the links available. I believe the Community will find special value in the exchange of different perspectives by commentators speaking for the founding member states.
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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