by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The first Dance with Bears appeared twenty-two years ago.  It began as a short commentary appearing once or twice a week. The title came from Astolphe de Custine, the greatest observer of Russia ever to be obliged to conceal what he was writing inside his hat, as the Russians he was […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 21st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ice cream is ancient enough to have been demanded by at least three well-known emperors – Alexander the Great of Greece, Nero of Rome, and Charles I of England, all of them ill-fated. Ice cream, as we know it, doesn’t become easy to eat until it ceased to be plutocratic.  Refrigeration […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The electric war, which in its first phase commenced in September 2022,  has now entered its second and final phase – final, that is, for the Ukraine. This is strategic; war has never been fought like this in Europe. The US and NATO general staffs and politicians have been taken by complete […]

by Editor - Monday, April 1st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Grief, anger, recriminations, media moneymaking, and political ambition make a highly  inflammable combination whose smoke and heat —  on both sides of the war against Russia —  distort what caused the Crocus City Hall attack – and what will happen next. Methodical analysis of cause of death and of culpability in […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In his election victory speech on Sunday night,  President Vladimir Putin has accepted the 87% Russian voter mandate to finish the war by securing the Novorussian territories east of the Dnieper River, and converting western Ukraine into “a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.” In military […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with As enemies go, Victoria Nuland (lead image), the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, was as threatening for Russia as the Thane of Cawdor was for Scotland and Macbeth in Shakespeare’s play about multiple homicide to capture state power.    Cawdor repented for his treason in the moment before he […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ingo Gerhartz, (lead images), 58,  was once a conscript in the German Luftwaffe who turned his ambition to be a fighter pilot into a Pentagon-supervised career  to the very top of the German Air Force for the past six years. The skinheaded  Gerhartz has never faced combat in the air or even […]

by Editor - Monday, March 4th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth – negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages. The political comprehension of the Germans […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Two women, Kira Yarmysh (lead image, left) and Maria Pevchikh (2nd left), made up the series of lies which in August 2020 claimed that Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok by a Russian state death squad – first in a cup of tea he drank at Tomsk Airport; then in a […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 25th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The history of Russian sex after the fall of Communist Party rule in 1991 hasn’t been told yet. And it won’t be. This is because sex between Russians during the Soviet period was a public taboo – its history has been written down as a party and police problem, and buried […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 11th, 2024
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