The publication is an academic historical interview: the conversation was recorded as part of the Collective Memory Project of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. The topic is Russia-US relations during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. The interviewer is Ivan Grek.
In the biographical note accompanying the publication, Belkovsky is described as a writer and political commentator. From 2002 to 2004, he was director of the Russian Council on National Strategy, and in 2004 he founded the National Strategy Institute of Russia. It also notes that he worked as a political consultant, most notably for the late Boris Berezovsky, and was the chief political consultant to Ksenia Sobchak during the 2018 presidential campaign.
The interview itself is built around the interlocutor's personal observations and assessments rather than around documented events. Therefore, his judgments about the Bush-Putin period are presented in the publication as the interviewee's opinion, not as established facts.
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