by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nobody learned to write a simple narrative better than Georges Simenon, with the result that over a lifetime of 86 years he drew 550 million paid-up readers, not counting millions more of library and other loaners. He rewarded himself with a well-known fortune banked in Switzerland, and carefully counted numbers of […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 28th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Every year for fifteen years now, Bruce Misamore, David Godfrey, and Steven Theede have been paid millions of dollars in lawyer and manager salaries, bonuses, and travel expenses by the men who weren’t in Russian jail with Mikhail Khodorkovsky (lead image, left);  and then when he got out, by Khodorkovsky too. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Slaughtering sheep, goats and chickens with the idea of checking their innards to tell the fortunes of human beings started with the ancient Babylonians, peaked in ancient Rome, and despite the best efforts of the Catholic popes, it was still going strong in medieval England. The killing was called casting the […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 24th, 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 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Dutch Government have released  highly sensitive intelligence confirming what is said to be telephone communications between Russian military commanders, the Russian Defence Ministry, and at least one Kremlin staff man in their communications with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The purported telephone interceptions […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new book has just been printed by Harvard University Press, written by a professor of French history at the University of Houston, Texas, explaining five ideas for Americans from events which took place in the court of Empress Catherine II (the Great) in St. Petersburg over five months between October […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Igor Kolomoisky has given the New York Times the interview US intelligence agency officials wanted him to give.  As they predicted, he spoke right on cue. The rest, as intelligence agency officials say the world over, is history. Only Kolomoisky and the New York Times don’t know history.

by Editor - Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the mind of Fiona Hill (lead image, right), the recently departed senior director for Russia at the National Security Council (NSC), everybody in Washington is vulnerable to Russian attacks of one kind or another, but not her. Instead, she admitted in testimony to the Congressional committees investigating impeachment evidence against […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow    @bears_with Alexei Mordashov is the largest single shareholder of Tui, the Germany-based tourism company. After the September crash of Thomas Cook, Tui is the leading tourism brand and travel company in the world.  In theory Tui has gained from the misfortune of its market competitor. But in practice the gain […]

by Editor - Monday, November 11th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Thousands of readers have been trying to read the latest stories on this website. So many in fact that they have been fooling our defence forces into thinking they are drones – not the sort which the Houthis have been operating successfully in Saudi Arabia, or the Turks less than […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 10th, 2019
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