A spokesman for the Investigative Committee, a special branch of the General Prosecutor’s office, said yesterday, after the news of the rescue had reached Moscow, that the surviving pirates would be taken to Russia and charged under the piracy article of the Russian Criminal Code — Part 3, Article 227. He and Russian Navy spokesmen […]

by John Helmer - Friday, May 7th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The horse has special talents. One is fluency in several languages; another is a knack for stock market investment. In the rarely seen comedy, the hero inherits the horse from his parents, makes some bad acquisitions on the horse’s advice, but gets out of trouble at a horse-race. Roman Trotsenko’s […]

by John Helmer - Friday, May 7th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Thursday, May 6th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The Russian Navy announced Thursday morning that its anti-submarine destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov had successfully liberated the Novoship oil tanker, Moscow University; released its 23-man crew unharmed;and killed or captured the Somali pirates who had boarded the vessel yesterday 800 kms off the coast of Somalia. The tanker had been under […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, May 6th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The Lithuanians tried it more than a decade ago. The Belarussians are trying it again – noone in Moscow believes it can be done. In fact, the Russians say it’s childish to try. When the Russian noose goes round your neck, they say, you either beg forgiveness, or you choke […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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The picture of an unknown woman has been included by the Moscow police in their evidence of the plan targeting John Helmer, which was carried out last December by Alfa Inform, a Moscow security company working for United Company Rusal. The name of Rusal, identified as the client on the title page of the Alfa […]

by John Helmer - Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow King Canute inherited his throne in Scandinavia from a powerful father. He is well thought of for having invaded northwestern England twice in the 11th century, and been in charge there for a relatively peaceful seven years. But if Canute’s reputation is safe onshore, it’s his offshore move that has […]

by John Helmer - Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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by John Helmer - Friday, April 30th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The first major Russian corporation to attempt to issue shares on the London Stock Exchange since the 2008 crisis has now failed, after the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) opened an investigation into Dmitry Mazepin’s fertilizer holding Uralchem. Undisclosed shareholders; a mysterious $200 million share transaction involving insiders; and inadequate […]

by John Helmer - Friday, April 30th, 2010
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  Benchmark – LME aluminium, cash price

by John Helmer - Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
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