By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with First, the news from the front as George Eliason reports on his tour this week of the civilian  destruction and mass grave sites at  Popasnaya, Kremennaya,  and Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region. Then from the federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, a Department of Justice document making fresh revelations in the […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 30th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war and US war sanctions have reversed the destruction of the Russian farm economy forced during the 1990s by the US “reformers” in the Yeltsin administration led by the recently exiled Anatoly Chubais.   Now, however, under government orders for self-sufficiency in food production, protection from US biochemical warfare […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Once upon a time, one of the leading literary figures in the UK defended Russian culture by staging a play in a London theatre in 1920 and again in 1926. J.M. (James) Barrie, famous then and now as the creator of Peter Pan, was the playwright; the play he wrote […]

by Editor - Monday, April 24th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Late on Friday evening in New York, early Saturday morning in Moscow, the New York Times published a report  by well-known mouthpieces for US and British intelligence on the Pentagon Papers. This reveals fresh evidence of what the TNT War of the Worlds broadcast last week reported was the way John Teixeira, […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of the privatization of Russia’s industrial polluters no oligarch has been dirtier, penalized more often,  and avoided court and state regulators more regularly than the steel, coke and coal producer, Igor Zyuzin. No one has more faithfully and profitably lobbied for Zyuzin’s benefit in parliament and government […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 20th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The title of an op-ed piece by a Moscow academic, published this week in Vzglyad, bellwether of Russian security analysts, requires reading between the lines. Every Russian knows how to do this since the tsar’s chancellery posted bulletins outside the Winter Palace on how well the Russian Navy was doing […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There’s one way of winning a war while keeping the home fires burning as normally as possible;  and another way of losing a war while keeping the home fires burning as normally as possible. The first way is to stock up on champagne, as they are doing in Moscow. The […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 16th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The sound out of Washington from the Pentagon Papers is what is known in the medical profession as a death rattle. This is what happens when an emperor makes a lethal or suicidal mistake; dies at the hands of his  praetorian guard;  and is replaced by the military candidate. In […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 15th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Marcus Kolga,  author of a new Canadian report claiming “Russian influence operations” threaten the minds of Canadian voters and “digitally illiterate” Canadian children has a Nazi grandfather problem just like Canada’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland. Freeland’s grandfather, Mikhail Chomiak from Lvov, Ukraine, was a paid spy and propagandist of […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In observing cat-and-mouse games, the rule of thumb is — if observers of the war in the Ukraine have a thumb — to recognise the difference between the cat and the mouse. On the Ukrainian battlefield, it is now the Russian cat who is waiting for the US, NATO and […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 9th, 2023
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