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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 →

Transcript of ‘Daniel Davis Deep Dive’ interview 24...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/25

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-0AI0iDvJo Gary Villapiano:Hey everybody, welcome, good to see you. “Deep Dive” here with one of our best friends, Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, historian, international affairs analyst, extraordinaire. Doctor, how are you? Doctorow:I’m doing very well, thanks. In St. Petersburg. Villapiano:Oh, very good. I hope you don’t mind me saying that you … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Daniel Davis Deep

‘Daniel Davis Deep Dive’ conversation of 24 October:...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/24

‘Daniel Davis Deep Dive’ conversation of 24 October: Putin’s Cowardice The title which DDDD executive producer and co-host Gary Villapiano gave to our conversation this evening will surely attract attention. It defies reason that the classic Alpha Male Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin could even at the threshold of old age find himself condemned for cowardice. However, … Continue reading ‘Daniel Davis Deep Dive’ conversation of 24 October: Putin’s Cowardice

Freedom of speech, of press in Russia – a proof

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/23

Russia is a ruled by a cruel dictator, an authoritarian who has snuffed out all civic freedoms which the population enjoyed in the 1990s Yeltsin years, right? Wrong. I have been saying that Russia has more freedom of expression and of the press than you will find in Western Europe today under the rule of … Continue reading Freedom of speech, of press in Russia – a proof →

Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 22 October

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/22

Transcript submitted bya reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUnczekIfc Napolitano: 0:33Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for“Judging Freedom”. Today is Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025. Dr. Gilbert Doctorow joins us now. Gilbert, always a pleasure, my dear friend. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for accommodating my schedule. Is President Putin, in your view, under any pressure … Continue reading Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of

‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 22 October: Will Putin...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/22

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUnczekIfc) I am pleased to share with the Community the link to the interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano that we completed just a few minutes ago. Presently and until my return to Belgium on 6 November I am unable to access youtube videos and therefore I present this interview to you sight unseen. However; we … Continue reading ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 22 October: Will Putin change tactics? →

Does the Vladimir Solovyov talk show speak for...

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/20

20 October 2025 The question of the value of using Russian state television as a means of divining which way the Kremlin is headed on key foreign policy issues has been highly contentious in the Alternative Media community. Some peers mock the idea, saying that the talking heads are irrelevant and that their own personal … Continue reading Does the Vladimir Solovyov talk show speak for President Putin? →

Transcript of Firstpost ‘Spotlight’ interview

Gilbert Doctorow ·

2025/10/19

Transcript submitted by a reader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_NDwd-GIg Spotlight: 0:00–the two leaders of Ukraine and of Russia. Of course, Donald Trump announcing this meeting with Putin, a meeting with Zelensky, expected later today. Who do you think Donald Trump trusts? Doctorow:I don’t think he trusts anybody. He is tilting this way and pivoting that way; these are … Continue reading Transcript of Firstpost ‘Spotlight’ interview →

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