Gilbert Doctorow

Gilbert Doctorow is an American political commentator, author, and independent analyst specializing in Russia and US-Russia relations. A former business executive with extensive experience in the Soviet Union and Russia, he has written several books on Russian politics and publishes widely read commentary on European security, NATO-Russia tensions, and Western policy toward Moscow. He is known for offering dissenting assessments of mainstream Western consensus positions on Russia. See his guest page for his full episode history on Groong.

Groong has featured Doctorow as a guest to discuss the broader geopolitical environment shaping Armenia’s strategic situation — including Russia’s posture in the post-Soviet space, the state of Western-Russian relations, and what these dynamics mean for small states caught between competing great-power interests.

Episodes featuring Gilbert Doctorow address the logic of Russian foreign policy, the prospects for diplomacy between Russia and the West, and how the broader confrontation between Moscow and Washington creates risks and constraints for countries in Russia’s near abroad, including Armenia.