By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British government’s scheme of secrecy surrounding the public inquiry into the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Dawn Sturgess in 2018 has been opposed by the BBC and the London Times.  “A requirement for confidentiality undertakings”, a BBC lawyer wrote to the inquiry chairman, Lord Anthony Hughes, […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 24th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It’s unlikely that when they were alive, Sergei Skripal (lead image, left) and his daughter Yulia Skripal (right) read Enid Blyton. The paratroop and military intelligence training which Sergei Skripal received prepared him for Afghanistan, Malta, and Spain.  By the time he reached England in 2010, he wasn’t undercover, and didn’t […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Friday, July 15, in London, a session took place of the British government’s public inquiry into the story of the Novichok attacks of 2018. This followed the first public session on March 25 and a closed-door session on April 4. However, the sound and video recording system failed. The presiding […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The public inquiry by Lord Anthony Hughes into the British government’s narrative of Russian chemical warfare in the UK and the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess on July 8, 2018, collapsed into secrecy, mishap, and farce in a London courtroom on Friday. The sound system failed, leaving only one microphone […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When I was ten years old, I was tall for my age and had an unusually powerful first serve for a boy.    After observing me hit a few practice balls, a famous international tennis star turned coach told my mother that if she handed me over to him every day […]

by Editor - Monday, July 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In wars like the present one, politics on the home front cannot be permitted to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In the US and NATO campaign, the Russian oligarchs and their businesses are targets and also weapons of the plan for regime change in the Kremlin. What role they […]

by Editor - Monday, July 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Next year it will be four hundred years since the Amboyna Massacre of March 9, 1623. The British won’t be memorializing their countrymen’s killings by the Dutch, nor the Dutch celebrating one of the last gasps of their Asian empire. They are now allies in the fabrication of reasons for killing […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 7th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Philip Short, a journalist from the BBC, has published a new book which claims to be a biography of Vladimir Putin. It isn’t. What it is instead is a biography of one hundred and twenty-three westerners — what they claim to know about Russia’s leader  and what for commercial motive, reason […]

by Editor - Monday, July 4th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There is a right way and a wrong way to understand how the war against the West is being fought on the Russian home front. The wrong way is to read the Anglo-American media, their stay-behind correspondents in Moscow, and their aggregators in Washington, DC.   The right way is to […]

by Editor - Friday, July 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Poles have always had a serious problem with their neighbours.   They have the Germans on their western flank, the Russians on their eastern flank, and inside their borders there used to be the Jews, but now there are the Ukrainians. In September 1939 there were about 3.3 million Polish […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
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