By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 25th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Agatha Christie’s whodunit entitled And Then There Were None – the concluding words of the children’s counting rhyme — is reputed to be the world’s best-selling mystery story.     There’s no mystery now about the war of Europe and North America against Russia; it is the continuation of Germany’s war of 1939-45 […]

by Editor - Friday, September 23rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Alas and alack for the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 (Berliner Luftbrücke): those were the days when the Germans waved their salutes against the unification of Germany demilitarised and denazified; and cheered instead for their alliance with the US and British armies to fight another seventy years of war in order to […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors voted to go to war with Russia by a vote of 26 member countries against 9. China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Senegal and South Africa voted against war with Russia.   The IAEA Secretary-General Rafael Grossi (lead image, left) has […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided this week to take the side of Ukraine in the current war; blame Russia for the shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP); and issue a demand for Russia to surrender the plant to the Kiev regime “to regain full control over all […]

by Editor - Friday, September 16th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Never mind that King Solomon said proverbially three thousand years ago, “a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.”   With seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, Solomon realized he was the inventor of the situation comedy. If not for the sitcom as his medicine, the bodily and psychological stress Old […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 15th, 2022
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By Olga Samofalova, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was the American humourist Mark Twain who didn’t die in 1897 when it was reported that he had. Twain had thirteen more lively years to go. The death of the Russian aerospace and aviation industry in the present war is proving to be an […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
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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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