By John Helmer in Moscow Alexei Mordashov (left figure) has a special thing for the Italians. He’s been rewarded for it in a number of ways. Last July, he was awarded the Order of Merit from the Italian Ambasador to Russia. The order, according to a Severstal release, is the highest award in Italy. It […]

by John Helmer - Monday, January 25th, 2010
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Cutting-edge recognition machines – supplied by the Russian state corporation, Nanotechnologies, courtesy of chief executive Anatoly Chubais – report that one of the largest groups of readers of this site uses the Rusal company server to gain access and read the reports. If to these are counted Rusal’s civil litigation lawyer Bryan Cave and Rusal’s […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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  If you have been having trouble loading this site, that’s because an attack was launched against the server on Thursday afternoon. After the repair, the site statistics show readers more than doubled. Also, a fake disinformation bio has been loaded on Wikipedia placed by three men with pseudonyms almost as transparent as the fake […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Tatiana Borisovna Yumasheva (aka Dyachenko) has been the politically active of the late President Boris Yeltsin’s two daughters. After shunning publication for years, preserving her privacy, her residence abroad, and her domestic political interests, Yumasheva began publishing a blog on December 3. New essays or comments appear every one or two days – altogether, 38 […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The spokesman for Alrosa, the state-owned Russian diamond miner, Andrei Polyakov, has made a statement this week to reporters that Alrosa is considering spinning off three of its diamond mining units, and selling a minority shareholding in each at an initial public offering (IPO). According to a news agency, Polyakov […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Two thousand years ago, in the northern reaches of what is today called Scotland, the Picts frightened the Romans by a combination of superior fighting tactics, lurid body painting, and the size of their genitals. Defeat the Romans they did, as this medieval illustration shows. They also forced the Emperor Hadrian into building, further south, […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow Mikhail Prokhorov has been honoured, he has announced, by the apology of the French government. The Sunday Times of London reported this month that “three years after his arrest in the ski resort of Courchevel on charges of pimping [January 9, 2007], Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s richest man, has received an […]

by John Helmer - Monday, January 18th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Friday, January 15th, 2010
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