By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a London courtroom last week, lawyers for the British government and the presiding judge, Lord Anthony Hughes (lead image, centre), revealed they will resist the efforts of the Dawn Sturgess family to obtain a multi-million pound settlement in compensation for what they claim, and the government says, was her […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 10th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government (lead image, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak) has decided that in public hearings to confirm that Russian-made, Russian-delivered Novichok killed Dawn Sturgess in mid-2018 – after failing to kill Sergei and Yulia Skripal weeks earlier – nothing can be said or revealed without being subject to an immediate […]

by Editor - Monday, March 27th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British Government has admitted over the weekend that its troops currently running the British war in the Ukraine are also engaged in managing the document file for the alleged Novichok attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018.

by Editor - Sunday, November 13th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British Government revealed this week it is paying Lord Anthony Hughes (lead image), a retired judge, £900.83 per month to conduct a public inquiry into the Government’s Novichok allegations against Russia. Following two preliminary hearings in March  and July,  Hughes has ruled that none of the state evidence for the […]

by Editor - Friday, November 11th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The British government’s scheme of secrecy surrounding the public inquiry into the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Dawn Sturgess in 2018 has been opposed by the BBC and the London Times.  “A requirement for confidentiality undertakings”, a BBC lawyer wrote to the inquiry chairman, Lord Anthony Hughes, […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 24th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It’s unlikely that when they were alive, Sergei Skripal (lead image, left) and his daughter Yulia Skripal (right) read Enid Blyton. The paratroop and military intelligence training which Sergei Skripal received prepared him for Afghanistan, Malta, and Spain.  By the time he reached England in 2010, he wasn’t undercover, and didn’t […]

by Editor - Thursday, July 21st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Friday, July 15, in London, a session took place of the British government’s public inquiry into the story of the Novichok attacks of 2018. This followed the first public session on March 25 and a closed-door session on April 4. However, the sound and video recording system failed. The presiding […]

by Editor - Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The public inquiry by Lord Anthony Hughes into the British government’s narrative of Russian chemical warfare in the UK and the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess on July 8, 2018, collapsed into secrecy, mishap, and farce in a London courtroom on Friday. The sound system failed, leaving only one microphone […]

by Editor - Sunday, July 17th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Philip Short, a journalist from the BBC, has published a new book which claims to be a biography of Vladimir Putin. It isn’t. What it is instead is a biography of one hundred and twenty-three westerners — what they claim to know about Russia’s leader  and what for commercial motive, reason […]

by Editor - Monday, July 4th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The allegation that the Russian leadership in Moscow ordered its soldiers to take a lethal nerve agent called Novichok to England and kill Sergei Skripal began on March 4, 2018, in the offices of the British prime ministry and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).   Skripal himself and his daughter, Yulia […]

by Editor - Friday, April 8th, 2022
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