By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The weakest link in the British government’s four-year long story of Russian Novichok assassination operations in the UK – prelude to the current war – is an English medical expert by the name of Guy Rutty (lead image, standing). A government-appointed pathologist advising the Home Office, police, and county coroners, Rutty […]

by Editor - Monday, September 12th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Among men eunuchs have the highest pitched voices. In crowds they can be heard but not listened to. They were more persuasive in the empires of the Asiatic despots.   Sir Rodric Braithwaite has just published a book entitled “Russia, Myths and Realities”, implying that now his country, the United Kingdom […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 4th, 2022
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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 - Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When I was optimistic, I used to mark the passing summers by the hit songs that were playing on the radio as I sweated away at jobs that paid me the money I badly needed.   “She loves you” was the summer of 1964 for me; “Summer in the City” was […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 28th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa (lead image), was toppled from power in Colombo and forced to flee the country on July 13, leaving behind a prime minister he had appointed to succeed him, assuring his immunity from prosecution and delaying national elections for two years. A week earlier, on […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Never mind the bang and whimper with which the pietistical Anglo-American Harvard alumnus and Tory snob Tom Eliot ended his 1925 poem, “The Hollow Men”.  Whatever he could have known and didn’t then, can’t answer the question now: How will this war in Europe end? Last week the Russian Foreign Minister […]

by Editor - Monday, July 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British government’s scheme of secrecy surrounding the public inquiry into the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Dawn Sturgess in 2018 has been opposed by the BBC and the London Times.  “A requirement for confidentiality undertakings”, a BBC lawyer wrote to the inquiry chairman, Lord Anthony Hughes, […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 24th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It’s unlikely that when they were alive, Sergei Skripal (lead image, left) and his daughter Yulia Skripal (right) read Enid Blyton. The paratroop and military intelligence training which Sergei Skripal received prepared him for Afghanistan, Malta, and Spain.  By the time he reached England in 2010, he wasn’t undercover, and didn’t […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Friday, July 15, in London, a session took place of the British government’s public inquiry into the story of the Novichok attacks of 2018. This followed the first public session on March 25 and a closed-door session on April 4. However, the sound and video recording system failed. The presiding […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The public inquiry by Lord Anthony Hughes into the British government’s narrative of Russian chemical warfare in the UK and the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess on July 8, 2018, collapsed into secrecy, mishap, and farce in a London courtroom on Friday. The sound system failed, leaving only one microphone […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 17th, 2022
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