By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In a media blitz this week, Yulia Navalnaya (lead image) has issued a video call on journalists to investigate her fresh allegations that Alexei Navalny was poisoned to death in his Russian prison on February 16, 2024. The anti-Russian media in the NATO capitals have rallied to report the claims.  So […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Chrystia Freeland’s final leap at political power in her 12-year attempt to rule Canada ended yesterday when she fell flat on her face.   Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose push has proved more kinetic than Freeland’s jump,  allowed this to be understood when he offered Freeland the less than face-saving post […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When the Germans rolled through Russian defences in the Operation Barbarossa invasion of June 1941, the Soviet commander-in-chief Joseph Stalin ordered the executions of dozens of western army unit and air force commanders. Stalin’s reasons at the time were his suspicion of their treason;  a demonstration effect throughout the armed forces; […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Howdy Doody was the most famous puppet in US history who was made of wood. He lived between 1937 and 1978.   He reappeared on a New York radio station this week in what the White House confirms was this dialogue:  “And Putin, when he looks at you, President Trump, he looks […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On September 3 President Donald Trump accused Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un of “conspir[ing] against the United States of America”.   Four days later on September 7, when asked by a reporter “Mr. President! Are you ready, are you ready to enter the second phase — Are you ready […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Can film impresarios make profits out of Russia warfighting films that demonize Vladimir Putin? Navalny the film won an Oscar, a Lola, a Bafta, and more. The size of the audience who have seen the film remains a secret of the producers, but the box office revenues the film has earned […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Listen to the groundbreaking discussion with Nima Alkhorshid today.   The full discussion paper of Vyacheslav Molotov to the Soviet Presidium, elaborating on the draft “General European Agreement on Collective Security in Europe” and raising the possibility of the USSR joining NATO was dated March 26, 1954. Read it in full […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When you sit down to read, watch,  or listen to  website, blog, Twitter, or podcast on the war against Russia, do you combine it with a glass of your favourite alcohol – or is that what you’d like but it’s forbidden on your jogging track, car, bus,  or train commute? The […]

by Editor - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The three questions are: 1. Has any politician in the NATO Coalition of the Willing Warfighters against Russia lied more brazenly to win his domestic election than Mark Carney (not counting Vladimir  Zelensky)? 2. Has any politician in the Coalition calculated more mistakenly that spending more on the losing war in […]

by Editor - Monday, September 8th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Novichok is a military weapon, the deadliest chemical warfare agent developed by several armies around the world over the past thirty years,  which hasn’t killed anyone. Alexei Navalny is a Russian politician who over more than a decade nominated himself to be President Vladimir Putin’s main rival but whom just two […]

by Editor - Monday, September 8th, 2025
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