By John Helmer, Moscow When it comes to laughing at satire and caricature, tastes change. Laughable drunkenness in one generation is as hilarious as the comedians Yury Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, and Yevgeny Morgunov were on the Soviet screen together. Nowadays the display of alcoholism is sad – take the Russian movie actor Gerard Depardieu, for […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, January 13th, 2013
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By John Helmer, Moscow “I can promise to say nothing that is untrue”, wrote Giuseppe di Lampedusa, the Sicilian prince, the Italian writer, when introducing a chapter of his brief memoirs. “But I shall not want to say all; and I reserve the right to lie by omission. Unless I change my mind.” If somebody […]

by John Helmer - Saturday, December 29th, 2012
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by John Helmer - Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
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by John Helmer - Sunday, August 26th, 2012
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by John Helmer - Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
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by John Helmer - Monday, July 23rd, 2012
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Every day some well-known people pay for Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks on this website to prevent you reading what is published.

by John Helmer - Sunday, May 27th, 2012
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By John Helmer, Moscow Valued correspondent (aka Boris Bear) has written in to point out an odd typo which crept into the texts of two recent stories involving Victor Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik. They are the two shareholding partners of United Company Rusal, with a 15.8% stake between them, who appear to have uncovered cooking […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, March 25th, 2012
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By John Helmer, Moscow For three years, between 2008 and 2010, Rupert Murdoch and his subordinates in charge of the Russian asset he owned, News Outdoor Russia (NOR), were under the investigation of the Moscow city prosecutors, the city Duma, and other government agencies for alleged bribery of municipal officials in exchange for business favours. […]

by John Helmer - Monday, March 5th, 2012
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By John Helmer, Moscow The committee of administrators of the Personal Abasement Award (PAW), having sat on their hands for two years, have decided to nominate Catherine Belton (image left) and the Financial Times for a presentation of the affairs of Suleiman Kerimov (right) at the very moment he has been trying (failing) to cash […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
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