By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Two Dutch nationals, David Petraeus and Sandra Roelofs (lead image, centre), were involved in the US planning of an invasion of the Donbass region, eastern Ukraine, in the days running up to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, when 193 Dutch and 38 Australians were among […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 20th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Here’s a serious question:  how should the European Union (EU) address the challenges posed by the Russian-Turkish partnership? Who better to answer this than a Romanian paid for by one of George Soros’s Open Society units, the NATO Defence College, Freedom House of Washington,  and the Polish Institute of International Affairs […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Each time former Wiltshire police sergeant Nicholas Bailey (lead image, right) tries to advertise his availability to tell his story for the Crown and for the money, he adds tiny details contradicting the official British government narrative that he was the victim of a Russian state attempt to use the Novichok […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Joseph Biden spent 33 minutes speaking at his press confernce to a group of US reporters pre-selected, coached,  and programmed by name, organisation and text of question. This operation made it impossible to allow Russian reporters to attend. Biden’s speech to his press was longer than he managed by himself […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “Vladimir Putin is not the president of my choice”. This is how the daughter of a powerful apparatchik in Tatarstan begins the book she has just written from London, at a think-tank leading the propaganda war against Russia. The problem for Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (lead image, right),  inside her mind, is “the […]

by Editor - Monday, May 31st, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Inside a university on the upper west side of Manhattan island sits Timothy Frye (lead image, right), a professor who still likes to talk of the good times he had in the Soviet Union when he was a young agent in a propaganda touring show for the US Information Agency; and […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Why would Orthodox Christian Russia, led by a believer, ally itself with Protestant America and Catholic Europe to encourage the Israeli Jews to liquidate a rebellion of Palestinian Arabs, mostly Moslem, after they tried to defend one of their Holy Places from Jewish invasion, and counter-attacked with more military resourcefulness than […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It has been eleven years since the Levada Centre, the independent national polling organisation in Moscow, reported a survey of Russian attitudes towards the Palestinians and the Israelis. “We had such a poll in 2010,” Denis Leven, a Levada sociologist, said yesterday. “I can’t say exactly if we are going to […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There are a few kilometres of flat country between the Golan border of Palestine, occupied by Israel, and Damascus, capital of Syria – perfect visibility, no cover, optimum for Israeli air and artillery attack, and also for Syrian and Iranian drone counterattack. Between the occupying Israelis and the occupied Palestinians on […]

by Editor - Sunday, May 16th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Nicholas Bailey (lead image), the Wiltshire county police sergeant who was a support player in the British Government’s first Novichok attack on the Kremlin, has demanded money for himself with the threat that if he doesn’t get it, and soon, he will go to the High Court in London. There, he […]

by Editor - Thursday, May 13th, 2021
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