By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British Government announced this week that after cancelling   the coroner’s court inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess from alleged Russian Novichok attack, the public inquiry replacing the inquest will not start for more than a year — until February 2023. Sturgess died in Salisbury District Hospital on July 8, […]

by Editor - Monday, December 13th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There has never been any possibility that Russian Army Colonel Sergei Muchkaev, commander of the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the 20th Guards Army, would respond to allegations by Bellingcat, their NATO sources, and Dutch state prosecutors. No possibility whatsoever. For more than five years they have been claiming that Muchkaev had […]

by Editor - Friday, December 10th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Behind the penetration-proof walls and the top-secret record of what was said, if the small print of their communiqués is the truth, President Joseph Biden has agreed to reduce the risk of US attack on Russia, and President Vladimir Putin to reduce the risk of Russian attack on Ukraine. “A lot […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
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by Editor - Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with About the Russiagate operation that continues in the US, Richard Sakwa (lead image), a professor at the University of Kent, has gotten one thing right and one thing wrong. The wrong turns out to be the same thing as the right. Russiagate, he says, defining that as the narrative of Russian […]

by Editor - Monday, December 6th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Once upon a time, before the Blin-Noodle gang had been born; when their grandparents were still Ukrainians; and before the gang was pushing its protégés to make war on Russia from behind a shield of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk, there was an American humourist named James Thurber. He was the […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
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By Liane Theuerkauf, Munich  @bears_with Igor Tarakanov is a Russian soldier.   He first appeared publicly two weeks ago, on November 17, to say he had escorted a battery of Russian Army BUK missiles from Russia into Ukraine early in the month of July 2014; that was days before Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed and […]

by Editor - Monday, November 29th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A High Court judge in London has ruled sharply against Catherine Belton and Rupert Murdoch’s book publisher HarperCollins dismissing their principal lines of defence against a multi-million pound case for libel by Roman Abramovich and the Russian state oil company Rosneft. Yesterday, in two detailed examinations of Belton’s allegations of a […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Evgeny Dobrenko (lead image, left) is a letter-perfect demonstration of several things he appears, despite years of learning at universities from Odessa to Durham (North Carolina) and Sheffield (Yorkshire), not to have heard of.   In the academic world, like any other business, it’s the money which does the talking, pays […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Remember the ten plagues of Pharaonic Egypt – the Israelites capitalised and made their getaway to a happy ending. The story has turned into several blockbuster movies and tons of popcorn have been consumed watching them.    There have been two plagues on the Russian film industry, but one is permanent, […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 18th, 2021
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