By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russian regime change is war – it isn’t cricket. Between the US, the UK, and Russia there have been regime-changing games for more than a century now.  Thirty years ago Boris Yeltsin was their big hit.  They have been bad losers since then. In cricketing terms, the Kremlin regime-changing plan […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When Yevgeny Prigozhin (lead image, right) arrived at Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov, announcing to Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alexeyev that he was on his way Moscow to remove Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, Alexeyev told him “Go get them.” Prigozhin didn’t take […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Without the public support of any political figure in Russia, military or police unit, regional governor, or the officers of his Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his thousand rank-and-filers have agreed to return to their base camps on terms negotiated late on Saturday afternoon between Prigozhin and Alexander Lukashenko, the […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 24th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Existentially speaking — which means whether to live and let live, to do or die — how far from a mortal enemy is far enough? In between the one and the other outcome, is there anything but a no man’s land?   Carthago delenda est – “Carthage must be destroyed” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war and US war sanctions have reversed the destruction of the Russian farm economy forced during the 1990s by the US “reformers” in the Yeltsin administration led by the recently exiled Anatoly Chubais.   Now, however, under government orders for self-sufficiency in food production, protection from US biochemical warfare […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of the privatization of Russia’s industrial polluters no oligarch has been dirtier, penalized more often,  and avoided court and state regulators more regularly than the steel, coke and coal producer, Igor Zyuzin. No one has more faithfully and profitably lobbied for Zyuzin’s benefit in parliament and government […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 20th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The title of an op-ed piece by a Moscow academic, published this week in Vzglyad, bellwether of Russian security analysts, requires reading between the lines. Every Russian knows how to do this since the tsar’s chancellery posted bulletins outside the Winter Palace on how well the Russian Navy was doing […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The brainwashing of the peoples of the NATO alliance is working much better with the British than the Americans. For the time being, Russia-hating is a peculiarly English phenomenon. Almost half the Americans polled a month ago said they did not believe Russia was an adversary with whom the US is […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 26th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with To keep western children safe from being misled by Anglo-American reporters on this topic,  here is a primer on what exactly the newly enacted Russian law says; what Russian public opinion thinks; what the Russian courts, judges,  and lawyers have interpreted the law to mean; and what the record of enforcement […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 18th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There were only two ways for Alexei Kudrin to become the president of Russia that he and the US government have always wanted. The first was for him to become prime minister first, and for him to get the job through the back door, exactly as Vladimir Putin got it from […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
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