By John Helmer, Moscow In cases like the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the only way to proceed is by identifying the evidence which proves with certainty what happened; or failing that, proves with certainty what did not  happen. Perpetrator, co-conspirators, method, motive, intention – all come later, if they come at all.   At […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow It’s novel for a US military institution to publish a report which contradicts its own conclusions, and adds up to evidence instead for the opposite of its proposals. This feat has just been achieved by the Naval Institute Press and Harlan K. Ullman in a book dedicated to the US Naval […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 11th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” That was Jesus Christ (lead image, left) talking, not German Gref (lead image, left), chief executive of Sberbank and the most powerful banker in Russia. The children Gref has […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 8th, 2018
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By David O’Brien, Boston The mainstream media (MSM) lie constantly. Writers in the alternative media work hard to expose these lies as they appear each day. But there is only so much they can catch in real time. Sometimes, looking back at an old story can give you a better understanding of exactly what happened, […]

by Editor - Monday, March 5th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow Still coughing from the effects of the influenza which has infected most of Europe this winter, President Vladimir Putin has declared that for his last term in office, Russia is at war with the United States. In his Federal Assembly speech on March 1, Putin also made sure that for his […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 4th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow One of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) officials responsible for the state takeover and subsequent collapse of Trust Bank and Otkritie Bank has been removed from office for the second time in fifteen months.  Mikhail Sukhov (lead image, right), a deputy governor of the CBR responsible for regulating Russia’s biggest […]

by Editor - Friday, March 2nd, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow The state media organ British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is preparing a television broadcast on Oleg Deripaska and asking journalists in Moscow to help.  Deripaska is the Russian state aluminium monopolist. The cue for the BBC is the new round of sanctions which the US Treasury says it is preparing,   and the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Central Bank of Russia’s plan for saving two of Russia’s leading non-state retail banks, National Bank Trust (aka Trust Bank, NBT) and Otkritie Bank, is unravelling because the two key witnesses to the wrongdoing which caused the banks to collapse are now under investigation for alleged wrongdoing themselves. On February […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Central Bank of Russia has authorized Suleiman Kerimov to take shareholding control of Vozrozhdenie Bank from Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev. The negotiation between Kerimov and the Central Bank occurred late last week. The Ananievs were absent abroad. Eight weeks earlier, on December 15, the Central Bank had ousted them from […]

by Editor - Friday, February 23rd, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow The three types of power which decide the fate of regimes are force, fraud and subversion; that’s to say, arms, money, media. The Roman Empire was good at using small armies to take on much bigger ones;  by adeptly concentrating their force they managed to rule much larger large territories than […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 18th, 2018
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