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Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 8 November:...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/09

Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 8 November: The Impact of the Ukraine War on Russian Society I call this a ‘conversation’ rather than an interview, because Glenn Diesen shares his own views on the issues for discussion quite generously and these should be of special interest to viewers, many of whom are well familiar with … Continue reading Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 8 November: The Impact of the Ukraine War on Russian Society →

You have to have a thick skin to talk geopolitics in...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/09

You have to have a thick skin to talk geopolitics in the public agora My chat with Andrew Napolitano on Judging Freedom 7 November has created a lot of commotion in the Russian-speaking world. Hours after the English podcast went live, one Russian platform on rutube already had a dubbed Russian version posted. That did … Continue reading You have to have a thick skin to talk geopolitics in the public agora →

Transcript of NewsX World interview, 8 November

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/09

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6OzJHmhLg NewsX World: 3:55Okay, now joining us is Gilbert Doctorow. He’s a Russia affairs expert who joins us live from Brussels. Gilbert, thank you very much for joining us here on the program. What is the significance behind President Putin’s direct line session later? What … weight does this event … Continue reading Transcript of NewsX World interview, 8 November →

News X World interview on the significance of...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/08

News X World interview on the significance of President Putin’s upcoming annual Direct Line Q&A It was a pleasure earlier today to be given a time slot in NewsX World’s round-up of key global developments to talk about the soon to be scheduled 4 hour annual Direct Line of President Putin taking questions from the … Continue reading News X World interview on the significance of President Putin’s upcoming annual Direct Line Q&A →

Transcript of Judging Freedom_7 November 2025

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/08

Transcript submitted by a subscriber Napolitano: 0:33Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, November 7th, 2025. Dr. Gilbert Doctorow will be with us in just a moment on: Are the Russians Losing patience with the pace of the war? But first this.[ad] 2:03Dr. Doctorow, welcome here and thank you very … Continue reading Transcript of Judging Freedom_7 November 2025 →

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 7 November: Are Russians...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/07

I am grateful to Judge Andrew Napolitano for posting my recently arrived at contrarian views on how the war in Ukraine is going and what Russians are thinking about the way it is being prosecuted. In today’s chat I was given ample opportunity to take issue with the ‘Putin is the only adult in the … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 7 November: Are Russians Losing Patience over the War? →

NewsX World interview of 4 November

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/05

Yesterday the NewsX World interview within their hourly news wrap-up focused on the battlefield claims of Russian and Ukrainian sides in fighting that is bloody and dominated by drone warfare. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G5kBgkeYV8) or on youtube search: Moscow reports 1,485 Ukrainian casualties as fighting intensifies across Donetsk

Transcript of today’s NewsX World interview on...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/01

Transcript submitted by a reader NewsX World: 4:10–secure supply routes and push back Russian infiltration. Russian forces have been advancing towards Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region for over a year, seeking to consolidate control over eastern Ukraine and push into neighboring the Dnipropetrovsk region. We now are joined by Gilbert Doctorow. He is a Russia … Continue reading Transcript of today’s NewsX World interview on Zelensky and Russia’s encirclement of Pokrovsk

Today’s NewsX World interview about resisting Russian...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/11/01

In this morning’s chat with the NewsX World presenter, attention focused on Zelensky’s latest bleating about Russia’s supposedly ‘terrorist’ attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and his vowing to chase the Russians out of Pokrovsk, where Vladimir Putin claims to have completely surrounded 5,000 Ukrainian troops and has invited Western media to come and look. (https://youtu.be/-Rkby1TzBgl?si=0lsf5z2Tfl4eOoaO) … Continue reading Today’s NewsX World interview about resisting Russian

Working links to the NewsX World interviews this morning

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/31

The links which I provided earlier from the broadcaster were time limited and no longer work, I am told. The following links should take you to the youtube podcasts Zelenskyy condemns Russian strikes on Sloviansk power plant| Russia-Ukraine War Updates| NewsX World Trump-Putin Meeting Cancelled | Trump cancels Putin meeting amid Ukraine dispute | NewsX … Continue reading Working links to the NewsX World interviews this morning →

This morning’s back-to-back interviews on NewsX World

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/31

It appears that I am now a daily commentator on this Indian broadcaster, which keeps me on my toes since they open with breaking news that sends me rushing to US, British and Russian sources to stay abreast. As you will see from these two segments of their 3pm (Indian time° broadcast, their production team … Continue reading This morning’s back-to-back interviews on NewsX World →

Trump – Putin meeting in Budapest is now officially...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/31

Trump – Putin meeting in Budapest is now officially canceled by the U.S. side Many laymen and a good many experts who are well known to the Community from their regular appearances on major interview podcasts will deeply regret the news that Washington has canceled, not postponed the Trump-Putin summit planned for Budapest, per today’s … Continue reading Trump – Putin meeting in Budapest is now officially canceled by the U.S. side →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 29 October

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/29

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhLsCsqkw9E Napolitano: 0:31Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for “Judging Freedom”. Today is Wednesday, October 29th, 2025. Dr. Gilbert Doctorow will be with us in just a moment on President Putin’s next moves. But first this.[ad] 1:59Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, welcome here, my dear friend. Thank you for accommodating my schedule … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 29 October 2025: Putin’s...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/29

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 29 October 2025: Putin’s Next Moves Today’s discussion focused on the contradictions, the flip-flops in the positions of Vladimir Putin and of his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov these past two days over whether they have an understanding with Donald Trump over how the war will end or do not. The latest … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 29 October 2025: Putin’s Next Moves →

News X World: Putin unveils advanced Burevestnik...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/27

The production team at NewsX World are hard at work today and have just sent me the link to the interview we did a few hours ago. In my last brief essay on applying lipstick to pigs, I addressed one of the two segments of this interview, the one on Russia’s announced deal with India … Continue reading News X World: Putin unveils advanced Burevestnik missile capability →

Transcript of conversation with Glenn Diesen, 26...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/26

Transcript submitted by a reader https://youtube.com/watch?v=ttYcjybLWBY Diesen: 0:00Welcome back to the program. We are joined today by Gilbert Doctorow, a historian, international affairs analyst, and also the author of the “War Diaries, the Russia-Ukraine War”. So thank you for coming back on the program. I understand that you are in St. Petersburg now. Doctorow:That’s correct. … Continue reading Transcript of conversation with Glenn Diesen, 26 October 2025

Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 25 October

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/26

With some help from a diligent member of the Community, I am now able to share with you the link to yesterday evening’s discussion of deterrence with Professor Diesen. The proposition is that Mr Putin is damaging Russia’s deterrence by his failure to respond adequately to the dangerous provocations against Russia going back to the … Continue reading Conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen, 25 October →

News X World interview 26 October

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/26

Happily today the producers at NewsX World were quick in getting to me the link to the podcast of the interview we recorded in the morning (https://youtu.be/6KY9ax158MQ?si=NW09xdv6wjy_ZqLo) Here we discuss the honesty of Kiev mayor Klitschko in attributing the latest deaths and injuries from a Russian drone attack on the falling pieces of drones downed … Continue reading News X World interview 26 October →

Transcript of News X interview 25 October

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/26

Yesterday I spoke of 2 interviews, the one of that morning and the one from Friday. NewsX sent me two links which I assumed was for both, though I had no way of checking given that youtube does not open in Russia. Now the kind gentlemen who does the transcripts has informed me that the … Continue reading Transcript of News X interview 25 October →

Interviews with India’s NewsX World, yesterday and...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/25

Interviews with India’s NewsX World, yesterday and this morning Now that my feet are planted firmly on the ground in Petersburg, I have acceded to the insistent requests from the Indian broadcaster NewsX World to offer commentary on the daily harvest of news from Russia on the war in Ukraine and developments on the diplomatic … Continue reading Interviews with India’s NewsX World, yesterday and this morning →

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