Author: gilbertdoctorow

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.

Brexit, the Chilcot Report and why we must prosecute our own war criminals

If we as a nation are to learn anything from the human tragedy we have sponsored in the Middle East over the past thirteen years, up to the ongoing civil war in Syria which our proxies among Gulf States enflame, then we must prosecute the war criminals In high office, whatever their party affiliation.

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Russia as the existential threat: General Philip Breedlove campaigns for office in the Hillary Clinton administration

By lending its valuable ‘real estate’ to the campaign for office of one of the most outspoken Cold Warriors within the military, General Breedlove, the editorial board of Foreign Affairs magazine has shown yet again that it is incapable of guarding its neutrality or balance, incapable of hedging its bets against a Trump victory in November.

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The Nuclear Clock is at Two Minutes to Midnight

President Putin’s remark at the start of the ongoing Anaconda-16 military exercises in Poland was that any move into Russian territory would elicit a nuclear response that would not be limited to the European theater but would be directed at the mainland USA. These were clear words, but I greatly doubt any of my readers has heard about them.

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Poland’s Lurch towards Authoritarianism and Simultaneous Positioning of Itself as the U.S. Fortress in the East against Russia

During his visit to the European Parliament on 30 May, ZMIANA National Board Member Janusz Niedzwiecki cast light on the arrest last week of Europe’s first prisoner of conscience, Mateusz Piskorski, and other chilling developments in Poland’s new political repression.

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