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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When it came to ingratiating American presidents, no Russian leader tried harder than Mikhail Gorbachev followed by Boris Yeltsin. Vladimir Putin did his best to match their examples with Bill Clinton. Putin was slow to learn, slower to anger. That began in 2008 when Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, broke a […]
Filed under: Books, DwB by Editor - Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In the mind of Fiona Hill (lead image, right), the recently departed senior director for Russia at the National Security Council (NSC), everybody in Washington is vulnerable to Russian attacks of one kind or another, but not her. Instead, she admitted in testimony to the Congressional committees investigating impeachment evidence against […]
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow When it first appeared in Washington in December 2013, the semi-thousand page biography of Vladimir Putin by two minor American think-tank researchers, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy, was judged to be a valuable compilation of everything the US news media and other government-funded think-tanks had already reported, suspected or believed about […]
Filed under: US-Russia by Editor - Monday, May 15th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow There is a Fiona Hill on each side of the Atlantic. One is joint chief of staff for Prime Minister Theresa May in London. The other Fiona Hill (lead image, right) is also British. She was appointed this month to be senior director for Europe and Russia at the National Security […]
Filed under: US-Russia by Editor - Monday, March 20th, 2017
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When President Vladimir Putin wrote a condolence on the death of Henry Kissinger (lead image), according to the Kremlin communiqué, the president said things in private to Kissinger’s widow which he left unreported to the Russian press. The Kremlin communiqué says: “Condolences over the passing of Henry Kissinger. Vladimir Putin […]
Filed under: Biography, Oligarchs, US-Russia by Editor - Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Pushkin House is the only London platform for anti-Russian propaganda which publishes an annual financial report revealing where its money comes from. The organisation calls itself a charity, according to UK law, whose “principal aim”, it claims in its regular filings to UK Companies House, “is to serve as an independent […]
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with A fresh German general has issued a public warning that the war on the Ukrainian battlefield by the US and NATO armies is lost, and that Germany will be lost next if the advance of the Russian forces toward Kiev and Lvov isn’t halted quickly by an armistice, partition and demilitarization […]
Filed under: EU-Russia, Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with On November 7-8, this website published a report on what the indictment of Igor Danchenko by the US Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Special Counsel John Durham didn’t mean, and what consequences it was unlikely to have. The title was: Does the US Government really intend […]
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Sunday, November 14th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with There are two kinds of lies about Russia. Not white or black; neither the Big Lie nor the small one. Those are differences between what’s true and what’s false. In our war-fighting world the real difference between lies is whom you tell your Russia lie to. This is according to the US […]
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Computer programmes used in universities to detect student plagiarism, along with semantic, style, and cognitive tests, reveal that Putin’s People, a book published by HarperCollins and bylined Catherine Belton, has another author or authors. Comparison testing of the vocabulary of Belton’s book and of transcripts of podcasts when Belton has been […]
Filed under: DwB by Editor - Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
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