By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Accused Russian bank robber Vadim Belyaev (lead picture) – US alias Vadim Wolfson – has won an order from the New York State Supreme Court dismissing the claims of his pursuers, National Trust Bank (NBT, Trust) and Otkritie Bank of Moscow, on condition he registers himself as a defendant in the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
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by Editor - Friday, April 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with At the conclusion of their most recent meeting in Tehran on April 13, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (lead image, right) said of his Iranian counterpart, “we have held good talks with my friend, Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif [left], in a traditionally trustful and friendly atmosphere”. Lavrov didn’t know […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a few days’ time,  it will the 91st  anniversary of the first appearance in print of Jules Maigret, who began his first case as a detective chief inspector of the Paris Flying Squad, and was later promoted to  Commissaire de Police Judiciaire; in his day that was the senior detective […]

by Editor - Monday, April 26th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It has been 46 years since the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon. Not since then have US  forces under the direction of the State Department suffered such a defeat in the face of superior defending military force. Until these days.

by Editor - Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Black Lives Matter (BLM) is the slogan of a global movement with which we agree;  and with which those who disagree don’t dare to say in public – in many places because it is a crime to say so. Australian Lives Don’t Matter (ALDM) is a slogan no one dares to […]

by Editor - Monday, April 19th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russia-hating Russians have long made a business of selling their bile to Americans with a  profit that makes Israel-hating Jews, Greece-hating Greeks,  and Cecil Rhodes-hating South Africans quite envious, though not quite as lucratively as Russia-hating Ukrainians have been selling since they lost the last war in Europe.     Sergei Lebedev […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 18th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The release by the Dutch prosecutors of their presentations last week in the MH17 trial before The Hague District Court reveal the extent of the incompetence and negligence of the two Dutch lawyers paid by Moscow for the defence – Sabine ten Doesschate (lead image, centre) and Boudewjin van Eijck (right). […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 18th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There have been only two painstaking records that an English journalist named Catherine Belton (lead image, centre) has been the fabricator of Russian oligarch and regime-changing plots when she was a Moscow reporter for the Financial Times, and since she moved to Reuters and published a book called  Putin’s People: How the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the annals of warfare, armchair generals, cyber warriors, and media propaganda may speed up the decision to use force. They never decide the outcome. Today, in Myanmar as in Donbass, eastern Ukraine, we have reached the point where words have stopped; sticks and stones have started. The further away these […]

by Editor - Monday, April 12th, 2021
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