by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The anxiety of the times causes most kinds of demand to droop. So it was to be expected that weakening share prices on the Moscow exchange and low crude oil prices would not bode well for the first of the autumn Russian Art Week auctions in London. This took place at […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 15th, 2020
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By Olga Samofalova, translated from the Russian*   @bears_with Russia has a strong competitor in the south of Europe in the form of Azerbaijani pipeline gas. It will flow through the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) directly to Greece, Bulgaria and Italy in November. Azerbaijani gas has already caused Gazprom a lot of trouble in the Turkish market. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The German Defence Ministry in Berlin has confirmed as genuine a copy of its request to the Swedish Defence Research Agency to test Alexei Navalny’s blood, and a partially redacted report of what the Swedes found — and failed to find. Blacked out in the Swedish report is the evidence of […]

by Editor - Monday, October 12th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The history of British intelligence starts and ends with the enemy inside the palace plotting overthrow.  That’s the domestic enemy – not the foreign one. For Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Francis Walsingham (1570-1589), the enemy was Mary Queen of Scots. The enemy within was still as vigorous in 1936, when Prime […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 11th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Alexei Navalny has given an interview to the BBC Russian Service contradicting the crucial  evidence and allegations which he and his associates have made earlier about the alleged poisoning attempt against him in Tomsk on August 20. Navalny’s new admissions expose fabrication of evidence by the German Government and by the […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 8th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A report issued by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), dated on  October 6, has failed to identify the poison weapon which Alexei Navalny and his supporters claim was used to attack him in a Tomsk hotel on August 20. Instead, the OPCW claims to have found “biomarkers” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Dutch Government has rigged the trial for Russian murder in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on June 17, 2014. The outcome will be a guilty verdict. For Prime Minister Mark Rutte, this is more easily predicted than his survival in power in six months’ time, when Dutch voters […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Dutch police have hired a professor called Maurice Punch to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. He tried; the Dutch police think he succeeded in a report called “Passionate Professionals: The Dutch Police Response to the Shooting Down of Malaysian Airlines’ MH17 in the Ukraine.”   Punch concluded […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the trial of Russian murder alleged in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines MH17, Dutch lawyers for the defence announced on Monday for the first time that their client, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Pulatov (lead image, left) declares himself innocent. The lawyers added their acknowledgement that their client must prove his innocence […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Cheese goes well with warfare. In ancient Roman times, legionaries on the march would be issued daily rations of aged hard cheese, to be eaten with bread, strips of bacon and wine.  In 2014, after the European Union  imposed sanctions on Russia for defending itself from NATO attack in Crimea, the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
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