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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who is under British and European Union sanctions, is lobbying in Washington for an early peace deal with the Ukraine. According to a document Abramovich has filed through the New York law firm of Kobre & Kim, Abramovich has told the US Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There were only two ways for Alexei Kudrin to become the president of Russia that he and the US government have always wanted. The first was for him to become prime minister first, and for him to get the job through the back door, exactly as Vladimir Putin got it from […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. “I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago,” Lavrov said. “Our goals […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Rupert Murdoch has been making money out of the combination of inflated female sex parts and puffed up Russia hatred for his entire life.   He used to keep the two of them apart; there wasn’t as much money to be made out of the latter, at least not by the […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a telephone conversation on November 15, shortly after the Ukrainian missile explosion at Przewodów, Polish President Andrzej Duda (lead image, left) said in a secret telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron: “Believe me, I’m very careful, I don’t blame the Russians. Emmanuel, this is war. I think both sides […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There isn’t a Russian over the age of forty-five – 40 million people — who doesn’t know by heart Vladimir Lenin’s report on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars of December 22, 1920. “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country”, Lenin said. “Our best men,” he […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A former Dutch tax inspector, currently a judge of a district court at The Hague has ruled to convict three men of forming a criminal association for killing 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, on the orders of the Russian military command and government […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with No one in Poland is in any doubt now that Tuesday’s missile attack on Przewodów* village, eight kilometres west of the Ukrainian border, was caused by a Russian-made missile fired by the Ukrainian military acting on the orders of President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. Two  villagers were killed by the Ukrainian […]

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By Yevgeny Krutikov, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The problem of interpreting the war from the Russian point of view is that the Russian military does not signal its punches, make idle threats, believe its own propaganda, or make money on click bait. The Stavka never leaks.   By contrast, Russian open-source commentators […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British Government has admitted over the weekend that its troops currently running the British war in the Ukraine are also engaged in managing the document file for the alleged Novichok attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018.