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By R.K.Raghavan and Ajay Goyal, Mumbai*  @bears_with We now have a first-class international crisis on hand — a man-made crisis of the kind that comes once in millennia and causes empires to fall. We may not, as some observers put it, be witnessing a world war. But we are certainly braving a “war of the world”. […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is not, repeat not, the tar baby story of the Afro-Americans and American Indians. The US and NATO allies aren’t the fox, Russia isn’t the rabbit, except that the Ukraine is the tar baby.   The reason US commanders were confident Russia would move into the Ukraine when they did […]

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By Yevgeny Krutikov, Daria Volkova, and Alyona Zadorozhnaya. Moscow – translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Large units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass will be cut into pieces, and then destroyed. Russian troops, as well as units of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), are moving towards each other […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Roman Abramovich (lead image left) is the most indiscreet back-channel, flaunting go-between in the history of secret diplomacy. The Russian oligarch, now a citizen of Israel and Portugal, could not have made himself more visible this week at the Istanbul round of negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine than if he […]