By John Helmer in Moscow This is the year that makes five hundred since Filofei, a very clever monk of Pskov, wrote an appeal to the ambition of Vasily III, Grand Duke of Muscovy, letting him know that if he played his cards right with the Church, the Church would take care of him better […]
We need the rest to sharpen up for autumn, and let the squirrel alone to wag his tail and collect his nuts – back soon.
By John Helmer in Moscow In the history of Russia it has never happened before that the oligarchs would take on the military establishment in a tug of war over billion-dollar assets. This couldn’t have happened in the past, because asset power and military strength were the same thing — boyars were warlords. Or else […]
The Levellers – John Wildman, John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Richard Overton et al., 1645-49
AND FOR SKILL IN ARRANGING POLITICAL PAYOFFS, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, TAX EVASION, MONEY LAUNDERING, EXTORTION, AND BRIBES, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE BUTLER OVERHEARD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNdn42_wN4 Note: for further information on Madame Bettencourt, her confidante, her butler, the tapes, and the court proceedings at Nanterre, use this link.
The Moscow police disclosed this week that they have decided not to investigate Alfa-Inform, a Moscow security agency, after an individual describing himself as an employee of the company made a telephone threat to put John Helmer in a wheel-chair unless he removed documents relating to Alfa-Inform and Rusal from this website.
By John Helmer in Moscow Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, with several government ministers, met on Monday [May 31] with representatives of Russian steel mills, carmakers, and state companies to discuss steel-pricing mechanisms. Putin started off wagging the stick, but it isn’t obvious that anyone in the audience thought he was serious. Putin began the session […]
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