By John Helmer, Moscow Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality, the triad of Tsar Nicholas I (lead image, left), is no longer as dead as tsardom. It has been revived by Patriarch Kirill (right), leader of the Russian Orthodox Church; backed by the Kremlin; and is now unopposed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and its […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 7th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill (lead image, 2nd from left) , has proclaimed his church the sovereign  equal of the Russian state, and himself the political equal of the Russian president. The power transfer took place at a Kremlin ceremony last week in front of President Vladimir […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Wiltshire county police have revealed in separate statements last week that they were at the house of Sergei Skripal within minutes of his having fallen ill on a park bench in the centre of Salisbury last year, in the case which has damaged relations between Britain and Russia beyond foreseeable […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 27th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Wiltshire county coroner David Ridley admitted this week that he held a 14-minute hearing into the death of Dawn Sturgess, alleged victim of a Russian Novichok attack last July, but after six months of further  investigations by police, military, intelligence and toxicology experts,  he still cannot hold a formal inquest […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow When Gennady Zyuganov (lead image, right) spotted dirt on Oleg Deripaska’s hands (lead image, left) this month in the State Duma, it was the first time in two decades that the leader of the Russian  Communist Party has noticed; or at least dared to say so in public. Was Russia’s leading […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 20th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow The British state broadcaster BBC and other media have disclosed that the Salisbury house (lead image) owned by Sergei Skripal is to be partially demolished and rebuilt over the next four months.   A Wiltshire Council notice to residents in the neighbourhood of the Skripal home is the source of the […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 17th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow In the US war for regime change in Russia, the Christmas dinner for the oligarchs was President Vladimir Putin’s idea in 2014 for demonstrating that he was in command of their loyalty for a price  the oligarchs were afraid to test. Late last month, the dinner was turned into an afternoon […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow There’s a reason Albion is well-known as perfidious. Like leopards and spots, it’s because he’s always been that way. In the 1920s the British secret services pursued Russians in the UK with the same zealous tactics and purposes as they have been doing in the past decade. The partial release of […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 13th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow We have been blasted; we are back; we have ignition; and with more light than ever.

by Editor - Sunday, January 13th, 2019
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My corpse managed to keep talking for twenty years. That’s the time it took between the Soviet KGB dosing my champagne with a near-fatal volume of a drug called SP-117, in order to get the truth out of me;  and a Russian oligarch sending two gunmen to fire their pistols into me, to stop the […]

by Editor - Saturday, December 22nd, 2018
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