By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The allegation that the Russian leadership in Moscow ordered its soldiers to take a lethal nerve agent called Novichok to England and kill Sergei Skripal began on March 4, 2018, in the offices of the British prime ministry and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).   Skripal himself and his daughter, Yulia […]

by Editor - Friday, April 8th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The public inquiry opened in London on March 17 by Lord Anthony Hughes to investigate  allegations of the Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess in July 2018 will employ a secret lawyer to make sure Sergei and Yulia Skripal will not appear; will not answer questions in public; and will not reveal […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
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By R.K.Raghavan and Ajay Goyal, Mumbai*  @bears_with We now have a first-class international crisis on hand — a man-made crisis of the kind that comes once in millennia and causes empires to fall. We may not, as some observers put it, be witnessing a world war. But we are certainly braving a “war of the world”. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with This is not, repeat not, the tar baby story of the Afro-Americans and American Indians. The US and NATO allies aren’t the fox, Russia isn’t the rabbit, except that the Ukraine is the tar baby.   The reason US commanders were confident Russia would move into the Ukraine when they did […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
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By Yevgeny Krutikov, Daria Volkova, and Alyona Zadorozhnaya. Moscow – translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Large units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass will be cut into pieces, and then destroyed. Russian troops, as well as units of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), are moving towards each other […]

by Editor - Friday, April 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Roman Abramovich (lead image left) is the most indiscreet back-channel, flaunting go-between in the history of secret diplomacy. The Russian oligarch, now a citizen of Israel and Portugal, could not have made himself more visible this week at the Istanbul round of negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine than if he […]

by Editor - Friday, April 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of journalism in Moscow, before there were Vladimir Pozner,  Valentin Yumashev,  Derk Sauer,  Alexei Venediktov,  Margarita Simonyan,  and Vladimir Soloviev,  there was Victor Louis. He was the best known of Soviet journalists, and the richest of them by a long shot.     According to a newly published Swiss […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
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By Matt Ehret, Montrealhttps://twitter.com/ehret_matthew While navigating through today’s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. […]

by Editor - Monday, March 28th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Lord Anthony Hughes (lead image, left), the chairman of the newly appointed inquiry into  allegations of Novichok plots and death in England in 2018, revealed on Friday that a British lawyer has been engaged to represent Sergei (centre) and Yulia Skripal (right) in the investigation he is conducting. This may mean […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 27th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the history of the world wars, or the last century of wars in Europe, or the wars the US has waged since 1945, it has never happened that what the President of the US says, and what the head of the front-line country which the US is fighting to defend […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
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