Chris Cook with John Helmer, Victoria, B.C., Canada Click to listen Gorilla Radio is broadcast weekly by Chris Cook on CFUV 101.9 FM from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The radio station can be heard here. The Gorilla Radio transcripts are also published by the Pacific Free Press. For Chris Cook’s broadcast archive, click […]

by Editor - Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow All law students in England, meeting the law of torts for the first time, used to study Scott v Shepherd. That was a case decided in 1773 in which a man in a marketplace was struck in the face by a lit firework that put out his eye. The legal rule […]

by Editor - Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow With just days before lawsuit deadlines expired last month, a Sydney, Australia, law firm has filed a new compensation claim on behalf of a victim of the Malaysian Airline MH17 crash of July 17, 2014. The new case, filed in the Australian Federal Court on July 5, targets the airline on […]

by Editor - Sunday, August 7th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow Coming soon to a Moscow office building, shopping mall, or warehouse near you, nothing and noone at all. According to a new report on Russian real estate market conditions through March 31 by the Moscow office of Cushman & Wakefield, the current vacancy rate for Class-A offices is almost 29%; for […]

by Editor - Monday, August 1st, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Financial Times of London has replied in defence of its reporting on Sergei Pugachev (lead image, foreground), a Russian businessman on the run from a UK High Court conviction and two-year prison sentence. In the Moscow evening, following yesterday’s publication on the Pugachev case, two emails were despatched, a long […]

by Editor - Friday, July 29th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow Pug dogs don’t live long. It’s because they lack proper noses, so they suffer from difficulties breathing in and out. That accounts for what everyone meeting a pug knows – they make a lot of noise trying to breathe. Less well known is that while pugs hiss, snuffle, and snore, their […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 28th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow On August 9, in St. Petersburg, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The moment is revolutionary. There has not been a comparable political turning-point in the 67 years since the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); not in the century since the Ottoman Empire […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
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Statement by IOC Communications Director Gerry Rice on the Managing Director’s Urine Sample July 22, 2016 In response to press queries, Mr. Gerry Rice, Director of Communications at the International Olympics Committee (IOC), made the following statement today relating to the Managing Director’s urine test in France: “As we have said before, it would not […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 24th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow As war and economic recession eat into their incomes, Russians are making fewer trips to restaurants and cafes. But because the tab is smaller, fast-drinks vendors are taking a larger share of the retail market than fast food. That ought to be good for Shokoladnitsa, Russia’s leading chain of hot-drinks and […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
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By John Helmer, Moscow At the end of this month the Irish High Court in Dublin will consider an application for the arrest of Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades’s (lead image, left) law partner, Theofanis Philippou, and for an order to disclose company documents produced by them both on behalf of their client, the fugitive Russian […]

by Editor - Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
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