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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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government’s narrative that Russian military agents, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, used Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018 continues to collapse. A secret chemical warfare agent revealed last week that two  tests for Novichok, using special machines provided by the Porton Down chemical warfare laboratory,  failed to confirm […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For more than two months now, President Vladimir Putin’s orders to the General Staff have been to shorten the range of the electric war campaign to the area east of Kiev and the Dnieper River,  and west of the advancing line of Russian forces. The General Staff have responded by limiting […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s a pity when a 760-page history of the Russian leadership’s thinking during the Cold War period, 1945 to 2022, earns consignment to the  waste bin within the first nineteen pages, and in just three sentences. This ratio of toxicity to prolixity – 1 to 40 — is exceptional, although the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal (lead image) unconscious to silence them. That was six years ago, when they were in Salisbury District Hospital in March 2018. Now, prevented from testifying in public at the public inquiry under way […]

by Editor - Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
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