By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A leading Ukrainian government official has admitted that a demilitarized zone (lead image, left) to divide the battlefield, protect the Russian east of the country from the US and NATO long-range assault, and partition Ukraine is in negotiation. “’We are currently being offered the Korean scenario,” Alexei Danilov (lead image, right) […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Angela Merkel (lead image),  the chancellor who destroyed the Christian Democratic party in German politics always hated Russia and President Vladimir Putin most of all. She concealed this for as long as she calculated she needed to preserve the votes of East Germany, German businesses and unions for her re-election. But […]

by Editor - Friday, December 30th, 2022
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Tamas Gergo Samu interviews John Helmer  @bears_with Tamas Gergo Samu conducted this interview by email earlier this month.  Samu, a journalist,  has been a Hungarian parliament deputy in Budapest; then an adviser to the head of the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), a key party in the parliamentary opposition bloc known as United for […]

by Editor - Monday, December 12th, 2022
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By Thomas Röper, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (lead image, centre) and Thomas Haldenwang (extreme right) the internal security chief Scholz accepted from Angela Merkel, have pulled off a media coup in the style of the first German minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (on knees).* No German currently employed […]

by Editor - Saturday, December 10th, 2022
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Introduced by John Helmer, Moscow, and reported by Christopher Black, Toronto  @bears_with There will be no Russian appeal to the high Dutch courts in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. A district court judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, ruled on November 17 to acquit one Russian and convict two other Russians and a Ukrainian, all fighting for […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 8th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the US economy was in collapse in 1929, the advertising copywriters for Coca Cola were told to come up with a new slogan. The chief executive of the beverage company thought that for  Coke to beat its rivals, it was necessary to persuade Americans who were desperate financially to pay […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. “I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago,” Lavrov said. “Our goals […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 27th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a telephone conversation on November 15, shortly after the Ukrainian missile explosion at Przewodów, Polish President Andrzej Duda (lead image, left) said in a secret telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron: “Believe me, I’m very careful, I don’t blame the Russians. Emmanuel, this is war. I think both sides […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There isn’t a Russian over the age of forty-five – 40 million people — who doesn’t know by heart Vladimir Lenin’s report on the work of the Council of People’s Commissars of December 22, 1920. “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country”, Lenin said. “Our best men,” he […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 20th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with No one in Poland is in any doubt now that Tuesday’s missile attack on Przewodów* village, eight kilometres west of the Ukrainian border, was caused by a Russian-made missile fired by the Ukrainian military acting on the orders of President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. Two  villagers were killed by the Ukrainian […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
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