By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There have been only two painstaking records that an English journalist named Catherine Belton (lead image, centre) has been the fabricator of Russian oligarch and regime-changing plots when she was a Moscow reporter for the Financial Times, and since she moved to Reuters and published a book called  Putin’s People: How the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere”. It’s a well-known Chinese maxim, especially in Myanmar (Burma), China’s backdoor to the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Navy’s forward defence line.     Russia’s policy towards Myanmar since the military takeover on February 1 is […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 1st, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The first session of the inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess, held in London on Tuesday, was almost entirely predictable. The counsel for the coroner,  like the lawyers for the Sturgess family and for the Home Office, repeated without qualification the allegation that a Novichok poison weapon they say was […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a series of moves coordinated with German and other NATO government officials, Alexei Navalny has released a fabricated internet message while his wife Yulia Navalnaya is in Germany to seek German, British and US Government aid for Navalny’s release from prison on terms that will end his political ambitions in […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 28th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Kiev regime of Volodymyr Zelensky is now in the same strategically vulnerable position as Petro Poroshenko’s regime was after the presidential election of May 2014. Both were facing domestic alienation and armed opposition, which for different reasons in the east of the country and the west, were impossible for the […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 25th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For the first time, the US-based international media agency Reuters is being sued for lying about Russia in the British High Court. The three defendants in the dock are Catherine Belton (lead image, right); her source, runaway bank robber Sergei Pugachev; and Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, HarperCollins. Roman Abramovich (left) has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with How many times must we repeat: in this war which the US and NATO have started against Russia, force will decide the outcome, not words. So if President Joseph Biden (lead image, centre) and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) are afraid of running the risk of losing the former […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
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By Liane Theuerkauf ,  Munich, and John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between his arrival in Berlin on August 22, his release from the Charité medical clinic on September 22,  and January 16, the day before his return to Russia, Alexei Navalny performed the nineteenth century ritual of walking in forests, thinking. The German term for this is […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 28th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The mystery of what the Berlin doctors treating Alexei Navalny discovered in his bloodstream and urine tests in Germany has deepened after the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly referred last week to the clinical findings of a Swiss-based neurologist, Vitaly Kozak. Kozak has been reporting for several weeks that the […]

by Editor - Monday, February 15th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last unanswered question about Alexei Navalny was answered this week in a Moscow courtroom by Navalny himself. For the first time he didn’t have production back-up from his MI6 helper, Maria Pevchikh of London,  or his CIA and BND teams in the Black Forest of Baden-Württemberg. The question is a […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
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