by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A freelance Australian-Ukrainian reporter named Demjin Doroschenko (lead image),  employed by the Australian, British and US press to report from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014,  has been exposed this week as an  agent of  the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). Reporting to a figure he calls […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 29th, 2020
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By Evan Jones, Sydney  @bears_with The MH17 was brought down over six years ago. John Helmer, with others, has compiled a book on the farce that has attended the pursuit of cause and culprits. Australia’s involvement is peculiarly both integral and marginal.

by Editor - Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Armenia has lost the October war with Azerbaijan because of Armenian failures in battlefield intelligence, obsolete defences, and the political miscalculations of Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan (lead image). His only allies now are the mountains and the weather. This is the consensus this week of Moscow’s leading military analysts. “During the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014 was an operation the US-appointed regime in Ukraine intended for the purpose of drawing the NATO alliance into military intervention in the Donbass. It failed, but the Dutch keep trying.   The Navalny Novichok of August 2020 is an operation in […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 25th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Last night the question was put by Hans-Joachim Spanger of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt to President Vladimir Putin, requesting his analysis of the evidence of poisoning in the case of Alexei Navalny; and the President’s assessment of whether the affair marks a turning point for the worse in Russian-German […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Republican Party sources in Pennsylvania say this week’s indictment of six Russian military intelligence officers for cyber-warfare operations in the Ukraine, Georgia, the UK, and South Korea is a highly effective political advertisement for the local US Attorney,  Scott Brady, 51, (lead image, right). The sources say Brady is running to […]

by Editor - Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A grand jury of steelworkers and coalminers in western Pennsylvania has voted to charge six Russian Army officers with several criminal offences, including defence against two enemy states at war on Russia’s borders,  Ukraine and Georgia; the UK’s chemical warfare laboratory at Porton Down; and the Organisation for the Prohibition of […]

by Editor - Monday, October 19th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Alexei Navalny has opened his US media campaign on Sunday with interviews on CBS Television and the New Yorker magazine. Wearing a new white shirt, he has also opened a new version of the attempted assassination.   In Navalny’s fresh plot, he now says he was poisoned when he was putting on […]

by Editor - Sunday, October 18th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The anxiety of the times causes most kinds of demand to droop. So it was to be expected that weakening share prices on the Moscow exchange and low crude oil prices would not bode well for the first of the autumn Russian Art Week auctions in London. This took place at […]

by Editor - Thursday, October 15th, 2020
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By Olga Samofalova, translated from the Russian*   @bears_with Russia has a strong competitor in the south of Europe in the form of Azerbaijani pipeline gas. It will flow through the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) directly to Greece, Bulgaria and Italy in November. Azerbaijani gas has already caused Gazprom a lot of trouble in the Turkish market. […]

by Editor - Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
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