By John Helmer, Moscow When His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (lead image, left) made a speech to the State Duma last week, it was both more, and less,  than a case of preaching to the converted. This is because investigations by the Central Bank, the Deposit Insurance Agency of Russia, a […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow A new campaign against the Russian devil has started in the US and UK media where the Hillary Clinton-for-President forces are strongest. The problem for them this time is that President Vladimir Putin is on the side of the angels. But he is unwilling to stop a power play by the […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 26th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades (lead images, left) has come under intense political and personal pressure to agree to terms of settlement for the future of Cyprus, swapping Turkish military occupation for European Union rights for all Turkish immigrants to the island — the former to be implemented over years; the latter […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Mikhail Fridman (lead image, left) has enough problems not to want to make his position worse in the US, Europe and Russia – all at the same time. There have been recent protests outside Fridman’s Alfa Bank branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as inside the State […]

by Editor - Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
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New broadcast by Chris Cook with John Helmer, Victoria, B.C., Canada Click to listen    Interview starts at Minute 37:15: “Leave aside the ideology, leave aside the issues, leave aside the big policy politics: there’s one thing you don’t do when you make a foreign minister your country’s representative – you don’t put a liar […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 19th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Chrystia Freeland (lead image), appointed last week to be the new Canadian Foreign Minister, claims that her maternal family were the Ukrainian victims of Russian persecution, who fled their home in 1939, after Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin agreed on a non-aggression pact and the division of Poland between Germany and […]

by Editor - Thursday, January 19th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow MiningMaven of London, published by Malcolm Palle, is a leading source of analysis for the global mining, minerals and metals markets.  It is also an antidote for the mind and pocket-blowing reporting of the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Murdoch press, and the Guardian. If you are ready to bet against what […]

by Editor - Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Almost everyone goes to bed at night. Some get up to urinate.  The older, less continent ones can’t get up easily, so they urinate on themselves. If properly cared for, they do so in what is known in the geriatric product market as roll-ups. A small minority arrange to be urinated […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Chrystia Freeland, a leading figure in the Ukrainian and Canadian campaigns against Russia, was promoted last week in Ottawa to become Canada’s foreign minister. She is now one step away in her plan to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister, sources in Ottawa, Washington, and Moscow report. There was a hitch […]

by Editor - Monday, January 16th, 2017
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By John Helmer, Moscow Three years ago precisely, on January 12, 2014 – just before the Anglo-American war against Russia began in earnest — we reported that the Moscow School of Management at Skolkovo was publishing  what it called  a market atlas of the jobs and professions which will be newly needed by the year […]

by Editor - Sunday, January 15th, 2017
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