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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with One of the peculiarities of the NATO alliance’s sanctions war against Russian businessmen is that the biggest of Russia’s bank robbers and corporate thieves have not been targeted by the press nor by the US Treasury. Indeed, the more criminal their conduct, and the more money they have stolen from Russia, […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with In almost a thousand years of military history, the proverb has been a reminder that an apparently tiny omission or detail overlooked on the battlefield can have ruinous consequences for the kingdom. “For want of a nail”, the saying goes, “the shoe was lost. For want of […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with On Tuesday March 15, the leaders of Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovenia met the Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky (lead image, right), in a room. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left) and Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, together with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and their Slovene counterpart […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow & Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw  @bears_with The summit meeting of East European leaders, hosted in Kiev by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on March 15 was fabricated by the Polish government, with Polish secret service agents playing the part of journalists, and fake photographs of the meeting, press briefing, and train journey prepared by […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In fighting the first-ever war of elimination between the US and Russia, the ghost of Lenin is haunting the Russian oligarchs. But it’s the ghost of Stalin in the corridors of the Kremlin.

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nothing is more certain than that wars make fortunes for gunmakers and pandemics make fortunes for vaccine makers. It’s uncertain whether it’s the market, the politics, or the science which advances some vaccines at the expense of others.  In the 150-year history of medical markets, the Covid-19 vaccines have been fastest […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new judge has been appointed out of retirement by the British Government to run a public inquiry into the cause of death of Dawn Sturgess in July 2018.  He is Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley, 73, who retired as a judge of the Supreme Court, the highest of the […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The first Moscow casualties of the US and European plan targeting President Vladimir Putin and  triggering Kremlin regime change have been revealed in the release over the past ten days of three  presidential decrees and a half-dozen implementing orders from the Russian prime ministry.   The breaking news is that there […]

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Interview with Andrew Nekrasov  by Florian Rötzer,  translated from German by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Andrei Nekrasov (lead image, left) is a Russian screenwriter and playwright, film and theatre director,  and philosopher who emigrated from Russia in 1980. Born in St Petersburg in 1958, he studied acting and directing at the Russian State Institute of Performing […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Yesterday, one hundred and forty-two thousand Ukrainians crossed the border into Poland as war refugees, according to Warsaw state television.  This is the highest daily rate since the military operations in the country escalated on February 24. A total of 1,027,603 refugees have entered Poland from the Ukraine between February 24 […]