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About Gilbert Doctorow

Gilbert Doctorow is an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of 'public intellectual' after finishing up a 25 year career as corporate executive and outside consultant to multinational corporations doing business in Russia and Eastern Europe which culminated in the position of Managing Director, Russia during the years 1995-2000. He is presently publishing his memoirs of his 25 years of doing business in and around the Soviet Union/Russia, 1975 - 2000. Memoirs of a Russianist, Volume I: From the Ground Up was published on 10 November 2020. Volume II: Russia in the Roaring 1990s will go to press in two months.
  • Putin's State of the Union - The Greanville Post

    Dehumanizing the enemy

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on December 27, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    The word “Russophobia” has been used very widely in the past couple of years by Russians and by “friends of Russia” abroad to describe the campaign of vilification of President Putin in particular and of the Russian people more generally that the U.S. led West has practiced with rising volume and shrillness ever since the start of an Information War launched in 2007.

  • Peace March. The Banner Reads 'Together against the War'—the Message of the Combined Russian and Ukrainian Flags, Moscow, September 21, 2014. Photo by E. Razumnyi/Vedomosti.

    Is the Russia-Ukraine war at a crossroads?

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on November 21, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    In a new 25-minute live broadcast devoted to the war, Iran’s Press TV showcases key issues from this week’s developments on the front lines, including the latest bombardments of the Zaporozhie nuclear power station and the missiles which fell on Polish territory, threatening to bring in NATO as full co-belligerents.

  • President of Russia Vladimir Putin Meeting with members of the Government (via videoconference).

    From ‘special military operation’ to open war

    Originally published: From ‘special military operation’ to open war on September 20, 2022 (more by From ‘special military operation’ to open war)

    From ‘special military operation’ to open war: significance of the referendums in Donbas, Kherson and Zaporozhie.

  • How the Western Media Deciphers the Neo-Nazi Code - Counter Information

    Russian allegations of rampant Nazism in Europe

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on August 25, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    A couple of weeks before Vladimir Putin announced his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, he met in the Kremlin with Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz.

  • Russia and Ukraine are all set for war as Ukraines' deadline for Russia to leave is ending

    The United States pushes Russia to the brink of war, then cries “wolf”

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on December 5, 2021 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    The Russians have plainly said that they deem the Ukrainian government to be U.S-controlled, not a free agent, and they hold Washington directly responsible for whatever may happen on the ground in their neighborhood. 

  • The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov, “Master and Margarita” and the anti-Russian hysteria in the United States

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on July 19, 2021 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    You cannot argue with mass hypnosis. You can keep a diary, write a chronicle that reveals the falseness of the spirit of the age to hopefully enlighten future readers, because, as we hear in another of the main points of Bulgakov’s novel Master and Margarita, “manuscripts do not burn.” That is what I do….

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