by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A short break.

by Editor - Monday, September 9th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Presidential candidate Donald Trump has repeated his promise to end the Ukraine war the day after his re-election with a bribe for President Vladimir Putin and his two pro-American constituencies, the Central Bank of Russia and the Russian oligarchs. Applauded by an audience of New York lawyers and businessmen on Thursday […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 8th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Sergei Kirienko, a former prime minister of Russia and currently the Number-2 man in charge of President Vladimir Putin’s staff, believes Russia can win the information war against the US and its allies. In his meetings behind closed doors at the Kremlin, Kirienko has revealed that he thinks Americans are so […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 5th, 2024
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By Slobodan Despot, Montreux*  @bears_with The owner of Telegram, as far as we know, is still in France. The bird without a nest now lives with a police ankle tag on its foot. It is still unclear why he himself landed in the trap set. But we are beginning to understand how he thinks. The intelligence […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pavel Durov (lead image) aka Paul du Rove (“vagabond” in French) doesn’t put his money where his mouth is. This is because more than half the assets and almost half the revenues of Durov’s Telegram group of companies  are digital units which Telegram itself programmes, stores, trades, values, and revalues, so […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with What can an employee of the Rupert Murdoch media machine and an employee of a George Soros think tank reveal in a new book about the evils of President Vladimir Putin which they and a foreign legion of thousands haven’t already said before – except that there is still money to […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 1st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The Russian Army stands for a moral defence of the country which [Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev] could no longer accept, either from Gorbachev or from Yeltsin. He said in his suicide note ‘I have earned the right to step out of my life’.   Now that is not possible except from a Russian […]

by Editor - Thursday, August 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Remember the old adage — sticks and stones will break  my bones but words will never harm me. In the war by the US and its Anglo-European allies to destroy Russia since 1945, the propaganda war has been lost by the Russians many times over. That war is still being lost. […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Wherever you are, once you are in war, free speech doesn’t exist any longer. Truth telling is replaced by propaganda narratives enforced by censors and security services. Between the truth and the propaganda there is that burst of 280 characters – 40 to 70 words – which was first invented in […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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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 - Saturday, August 24th, 2024
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