by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In politics — the Kremlin is no exception — politicians don’t mean what they say.  In gardening, the plants always mean what they say. Gardeners, obliged to record what that is, are more likely than politicians to tell the truth. In the records of Russian politicians since the Bolshevik Revolution, only […]

by Editor - Monday, November 18th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Sunday afternoon the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a massive strike of air and sea-launched missiles and drones have struck and destroyed parts of the Ukrainian electricity grid in the western regions of the Ukraine, as well as in Odessa and Nikolaev in the southeast.   The Mukachevo interconnector station […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just […]

by Editor - Saturday, November 16th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Anthony Hughes, the retired judge (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley) directing the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London, opened the questioning of a senior British Government chemical warfare agent on Wednesday by telling him “you’re not bound by your statement, but by all means use it to refresh your recollection”  — page […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 14th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This week’s announcements of emergency electricity rationing and scheduled power supply cuts in the farwestern Ukrainian regions of Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia indicate that pinpoint drone targeting by the Russian General Staff  is a new stage in the electric war since President Vladimir Putin put on pause long-range missile attacks on […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between wishful thinking and delusional thinking in normal life, there can be the psychiatrist’s couch and prescription of Prozac capsules swallowed once a day.   In politics – Russian politics are no exception – there can be media debate so that in between plan, action, and outcome it is possible to […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Vladimir Putin, September 5, 2024: “As for my preferences, it is not up to us to decide. After all, the American people will have to make their own choice. As I have already said, we favoured Mr Biden, the current President, but they took him out of the race. That said, […]

by Editor - Monday, November 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To reflect upon, today’s Sabbath reading comes from two Russian texts. One was a prepared script followed by impromptu elaboration which took place in Sochi on November 7. The second text followed in Moscow after the notorious football match in Amsterdam which happened later on the same day. The first reading […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 10th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Forcing Sergei and Yulia Skripal into artificial coma, intubating them so that they could not speak, and barring them from public testimony  are now revealed in the Novichok show trial under way in London. Resuscitating Dawn Sturgess from cardiac arrest and brain death in order to make her a victim of […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The single most important witness in six years of investigations into the cause of Dawn Sturgess’s death,  the pathologist appointed by the government to conduct her post-mortem, has testified that he failed to discover Novichok in his eleven-hour long autopsy. Instead, his official reports from 2018 reveal that he was told […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 7th, 2024
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