By Olga Samofalova, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was the American humourist Mark Twain who didn’t die in 1897 when it was reported that he had. Twain had thirteen more lively years to go. The death of the Russian aerospace and aviation industry in the present war is proving to be an […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The weakest link in the British government’s four-year long story of Russian Novichok assassination operations in the UK – prelude to the current war – is an English medical expert by the name of Guy Rutty (lead image, standing). A government-appointed pathologist advising the Home Office, police, and county coroners, Rutty […]

by Editor - Monday, September 12th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The US Army’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has been firing several hundred million dollars’ worth of cyber warheads at Russian targets from its headquarters at MacDill Airforce Base in Florida. They have all been duds. The weapons, the source, and their failure to strike effectively have been exposed in a new […]

by Editor - Monday, September 5th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Maria Yudina (lead image) is one of the great Russian pianists. She was not, however, one who appealed to all tastes in her lifetime, 1899 to 1970. In a new biography of her by Elizabeth Wilson, Yudina’s belief that music represents Orthodox Christian faith is made out to be so heroic, the […]

by Editor - Monday, September 5th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Those lighting Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral pyre are torching the truth of the matter – that Gorbachev was a liar of monumental vanity who betrayed his country out of greed and incompetence, outpointed by his adversaries in Moscow, Washington, and London because they knew him better than he knew himself.

by Editor - Sunday, September 4th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Among men eunuchs have the highest pitched voices. In crowds they can be heard but not listened to. They were more persuasive in the empires of the Asiatic despots.   Sir Rodric Braithwaite has just published a book entitled “Russia, Myths and Realities”, implying that now his country, the United Kingdom […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 4th, 2022
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On August 24, 1991, Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev committed suicide. He had returned from his holiday at Sochi responding to the attempted removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. According to the reports of the time, he hanged himself in his Kremlin office, leaving behind a note. One version of what it said was: “I cannot […]

by Editor - Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When I was optimistic, I used to mark the passing summers by the hit songs that were playing on the radio as I sweated away at jobs that paid me the money I badly needed.   “She loves you” was the summer of 1964 for me; “Summer in the City” was […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 28th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa (lead image), was toppled from power in Colombo and forced to flee the country on July 13, leaving behind a prime minister he had appointed to succeed him, assuring his immunity from prosecution and delaying national elections for two years. A week earlier, on […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Never mind the bang and whimper with which the pietistical Anglo-American Harvard alumnus and Tory snob Tom Eliot ended his 1925 poem, “The Hollow Men”.  Whatever he could have known and didn’t then, can’t answer the question now: How will this war in Europe end? Last week the Russian Foreign Minister […]

by Editor - Monday, July 25th, 2022
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