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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The slogan on the 1960 Soviet poster by Kovalev and Godgold announces that to build your strength for work, the sun, air and water are necessary. That’s what we need in August.   For clear head, a smile on your face, and bulging muscles by September, read the book before the […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ignore the Anglo-American propaganda now circulating from Kiev that Russia’s military  has suffered a grave  military defeat in the Sahara desert, when Tuareg (Touareg) forces destroyed a Russian Wagner unit and Malian government forces in five days of battle at Tinzaouaten, on the desert border between Algeria and Mali. “Russia’s Wagner […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Mount Olympus, the ancient Greek one, there was no god of Hypocrisy. That’s because all of the gods were, starting with Zeus himself, the king of the gods. It is the same in Paris,  as the organiser of the state ceremony of the Olympic Games has claimed  the performance of […]

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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Combat losses of the Ukrainian armed forces along the front have accelerated to a current average of almost two thousand men a day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily  briefing and bulletin. The damage or loss of weapons is also growing fast.   In the first week of July a […]