By John Helmer, Moscow The State Department has switched off the lights for Victoria Nuland’s (lead image, right) planned meeting in Cyprus this week with President Nicos Anastasiades (left). Cyprus sources confirm that Nuland is expected to arrive in Nicosia on Wednesday. The Greek press was told last Friday the visit is scheduled for this […]

by Editor - Monday, October 10th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow Sovcomflot, Russia’s state-owned shipping company and one of the largest oil and gas tanker operators in the world, has today been ordered by a London court to pay compensation of $70 million, plus legal costs, to Russian shipowner and Sovcomflot’s former charter partner, Yury Nikitin. The penalty, imposed by Justice Sir […]

by Editor - Friday, October 7th, 2016
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Chris Cook with John Helmer, Victoria, B.C., Canada Click to listen Gorilla Radio is broadcast weekly by Chris Cook on CFUV 101.9 FM from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The radio station can be heard here. The Gorilla Radio transcripts are also published by the Pacific Free Press. For Chris Cook’s broadcast archive, click […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 6th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow As empires go into terminal decline, their generals go, too. Enroute, they become egomaniacs. The pensions for retired military madmen are modest, so the generals run short of cash. The source of money which financed General Sir Richard Shirreff (lead image, left) to produce a book claiming Russia is about to […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow You don’t need to be an expert in ground-to-air warfare, radar, missile ordnance, or forensic criminology to understand the three fundamental requirements for prosecuting people for crimes. The first is proof of intention to do what happened. The second is proof of what could not have happened amounts to proof that […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 29th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow At a press conference of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in The Netherlands today, police, prosecutors and intelligence agents from The Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine have revealed that they have found evidence from a freshly identified Ukrainian “mobile radar”, from secret Ukrainian air traffic controller tapes, and from secret […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
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By Alexander Zaitchik and Mark Ames, Moscow November 30, 2007 “A Victory for Russian Democracy” —Title of a New York Times editorial, days after the ODIHR-approved 1996 presidential election “Exit, Russian Democracy” —Title of a New York Times editorial, days before the ODIHR-boycotted 2007 Duma elections When Russia told the OSCE that their election monitoring […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 25th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow It was a relatively bright day, November 21, 1920, when Vladimir Lenin, having won the civil war and driven off the American, British, French, Canadian and Australian expeditionary forces, announced: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, since industry cannot be developed without electrification.” It was a […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow A multi-million dollar case of corruption and money-laundering, involving the fugitive Russian businessman Leonid Lebedev and his lawyer, now the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades (lead image), moved to New York this week, as Anastasiades landed for a week of meetings at United Nations headquarters; followed by Lebedev’s jet a few […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow If you want to understand Russian politics, watch the tomato talk to power. President Vladimir Putin rolled out the red carpet for Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, last month, and it was announced that the Russian ban on Turkish food imports will soon be dropped. But the Russian tomato trade doesn’t […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 15th, 2016
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