By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Every year at this time, as certain and regular as the Moscow city administration turns off the central hotwater boilers for cleaning, we close the office, postpone the flow of Dances with Bears, suspend the tweets. But just as surely as Muscovites install electric water heaters for substitutes during the profilaktika (профилактика […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow, with Sahar Dadjoo, Teheran  @bears_with In an interview and video recorded in Teheran on Wednesday, Sahar Dadjoo asked the questions and these are the answers published on August 1.    In focus is the US-guided Ukrainian drone attack on the Iranian cargo vessel Ana in the Caspian Sea which occurred on July 25. […]

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By Oleg Tsarev, Crimea, introduced by John Helmer  @bears_with The current restrictions imposed by the Trump Administration and NATO on Ukrainian drone and missile strike options against Russia reflect a strategy known as boiling the frog in warm water. This is a strategy of gradual escalation, the timing of which is measured stepwise – so western […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The appearance this week of an unrecognized man (lead images, top right, bottom 2nd from right) standing next to General Dan Caine and behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is a signal that the days of President Donald Trump as peacemaker are […]

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