by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Grief for his loss has prevented me from writing about Krissy (Kris, Kriska, Krisichka, Kiryusha from КРЫСА meaning “rat”). He is the cat to whom I belonged who died at our home in Moscow nine years ago, on December 9, 2011. The efforts of a Russian oligarch to kill me, and then, […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 29th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014 was an operation the US-appointed regime in Ukraine intended for the purpose of drawing the NATO alliance into military intervention in the Donbass. It failed, but the Dutch keep trying.   The Navalny Novichok of August 2020 is an operation in […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 25th, 2020
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By Stanislas Balcerac, Warsaw, translated from Polish with illustrations by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven (lead image, right), a former deputy head of the German intelligence agency BND, and more recently the NATO intelligence chief, a newly created post, is now to take over as the new German ambassador in Poland. This is […]

by Editor - Sunday, June 7th, 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 English plane spotters and bird watchers have discovered the location of the Skripals in Gloucestershire. An hour and a half’s drive north of their well-known home in Salisbury, Sergei and Yulia Skripal have been hidden inside an airbase operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) for long-range B-52 and B-2 […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 8th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The operational chief of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a British officer whose combat role in Syria between 2016 and 2018 the OSCE is attempting to conceal. Mark Etherington, a British Army paratrooper, was “working on Syria”, according […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The US State Department, the Republican Party Institute and Igor Kolomoisky can’t all be wrong about what the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian voters is thinking – that there is a civil war in the Ukraine which cannot be won by US arms,  money, and putsches in Kiev. The question to […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 7th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow When India, one of Russia’s largest and longest-serving allies, was attacked by Pakistan in Kashmir since mid-February, the Kremlin sent condolences, expressed hope for a “prompt settlement”, and authorized Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to offer to mediate between the ally and its enemy.  “Russia is ready to offer a negotiating platform […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow For the first time President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly has abandoned the distinction between  American partners and American enemies. In this week’s speech, Putin said that in response to the threats of missile attack the US is introducing against Russia, Americans in their command centres, all of […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 21st, 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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