Peace movement members are no more immune to media manipulation than the general population whatever they may think of their own perspicacity. Read on….
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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.
Democracy Deficit in the European Parliament
The European Parliament needs a vast overhaul and re-think if it is to be anything more than a top down run voting machine in the hands of the same big countries and big parties that otherwise control the Council and populate the Commission with their minions. Read on….
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Foreign Affairs magazine, November-December 2014: the Mearsheimer Debate
The Establishment boys are long out of practice at debates. In their contemptuous dismissal of any opponents who present another vision of events, they have gone flabby. Read on…
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Twilight of the Gods: George Soros in Brussels
“Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.” Read on….
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Alphabet Soup is Good for You: United Left in the European Parliament
Imposition of sanctions on Russia by ruling of the European Council violated procedures of the European Institutions. Thus, those who denounce Putin’s Russia for alleged authoritarian decision making, would do better to look in the mirror at the democratic deficit in the capital of Europe. Read on….
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American civil society – hostage to the sanctions policy
Today’s task is to move from Alexander Herzen’s ‘Who is Guilty,’ meaning to end the acrimonious finger pointing over who started the New Cold War, and to take up Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s challenge of ‘What is to be Done?’ Read on…
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Khodorkovsky for President!
Mikhail Khodorkovsky isn’t a modern day Alexander Herzen. His openrussia.org isn’t The Bell. And Russian society is not asleep; on the contrary it is a beehive of activity and of free debate. Read on…
Foreign Affairs magazine, September-October 2014 issue: “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer’s essay deals a devastating blow to the War Party in Washington. And yet the authors of our misbegotten policy towards Russia are let off easy by this contrarian political scientist who made his name exposing the Israel Lobby. Read on…
Speech to the US-Russia Forum, Hotel Arbat, Moscow, 8 September 2014
When businesses understand how their interests can be best defended by civil society acting through a Committee on East West Accord to roll back the sanctions, I expect they will give a sympathetic hearing to our request for funding. Read on….
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House of Cards and the Obama Administration’s Policy on Russia
How may we understand Obama’s insulting assertions about Russia in his latest interview with The Economist newspaper and what do they tell us about his Russian policy? Read on….
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