by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with “The immediate priority is to prevent the quick spread of this disease”, President Vladimir Putin (lead image, top left) declared in his state speech on the corona virus last week.   This is the point on which there is no disagreement, not now at least. But how restrictive for the economy […]

by Editor - Monday, March 30th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Sunday, March 22, Russia’s Defence Ministry sent more than fifteen Ilyushin heavy transport planes to Rome with medical aid to Italy, setting up a special medical headquarters at Bergamo, in the Lombady region of northern Italy.  This is the largest Russian aid operation in Europe since World War II. To […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The presiding judge in the trial of murder in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, has dropped a bombshell at the end of his 45-minute presentation in court in The Netherlands on Monday morning.   Reading from a prepared script, Judge Hendrik Steenhuis (lead image) ordered […]

by Editor - Monday, March 23rd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with An attempt is underway to arrange a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) to restore the agreement on oil production cuts which MbS broke at the March 6 meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries with Russia (OPEC+).  The Crown Prince is […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian toilet paper is a national secret – not a state secret, but a commercial one. This is because production, sales and profits have been growing fast – and this has been for the past five years, before the current toilet paper panic. Secrecy is also in operation because the major […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 19th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the first two hours of the first day of the Dutch trial of allegations of murder in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, Hendrik Steenhuis, the presiding judge, revealed that the judgement for  Dutch court jurisdiction for the case to proceed is inevitable. He did that three months before […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russia is not the initiator of the war on the oil front which is now under way. Not Russian Energy Minister, Alexander Novak (lead image, right), but Mohammed Bin Salman (left), the Saudi Crown Prince and chief executive of the sheikhdom. This is war propaganda from the Financial Times : “ […]

by Editor - Monday, March 9th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Cyber attacks have been launched in England to stop publication of new evidence in the Skripal case from being published this week on the second anniversary of the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, March 4, 2018. The targets were The Blogmire produced by Rob Slane from Salisbury, and […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Everything, including artillery fire, infantry movements, launch of drones, rockets and refugees,  even losses of territory and men, is planned by three Turks – President Tayyip Recep Erdogan (lead images);  Defence Minister and former head of the Turkish General Staff, Hulusi Akar;   and Hakan Fidan, head of the National Intelligence Organization […]

by Editor - Monday, March 2nd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Two weeks is not a long time in Russian politics. But it’s just enough for Kremlin deputy staff chief Sergei Kirienko to send the instruction to the Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova (lead image) that any turnout, big or small, for the national vote on constitutional amendments will be enough.  […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 27th, 2020
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