by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with As enemies go, Victoria Nuland (lead image), the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, was as threatening for Russia as the Thane of Cawdor was for Scotland and Macbeth in Shakespeare’s play about multiple homicide to capture state power.    Cawdor repented for his treason in the moment before he […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 7th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ingo Gerhartz, (lead images), 58,  was once a conscript in the German Luftwaffe who turned his ambition to be a fighter pilot into a Pentagon-supervised career  to the very top of the German Air Force for the past six years. The skinheaded  Gerhartz has never faced combat in the air or even […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth – negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages. The political comprehension of the Germans […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The collapse of the Ukrainian army following the battle of Avdeyevka, and its disorganized retreat, have accelerated Russian military thinking of how far westward the NATO allies will decide that the Ukrainian statelet can be defended against the expected Russian advance – and how fast new NATO defences can be created […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Alexei Navalny’s organization outside Russia is now repudiating Lyudmila Navalnaya, Navalny’s mother, for having accepted the medical evidence and official certification that the cause of his death was an embolism, or blood clot, which stopped his heart. On Monday, several days after the release of the post-mortem documents and of Navalny’s […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Two women, Kira Yarmysh (lead image, left) and Maria Pevchikh (2nd left), made up the series of lies which in August 2020 claimed that Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok by a Russian state death squad – first in a cup of tea he drank at Tomsk Airport; then in a […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 25th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When the previous piece on the Russian art market was published early this week, an Anglo-European art critic didn’t like the independent direction this market is now forced to take. He was also angry that his personal animus towards President Vladimir Putin, the Russian army,  and the war against the US […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To the French artist Claude Monet goes the credit for inventing the idea of making money by producing series of paintings on the same subject – haystacks, poplar trees, church fronts, and water lilies – adding a premium for buying the series as a single lot; dubbing them with a theory […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Since a pack of lies about Alexei Navalny (lead image, right) won last year’s Oscar for the best documentary film of the year when he was alive,   there’s no doubt he can win another Oscar when he’s dead.  But alive or dead, the prize-winning propaganda of Navalny’s story bears no resemblance […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 18th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A book by a man announcing himself on page one as an undercover MI6 agent, dedicated on page two to “the people of Ukraine as they continue their fight for freedom”, then endorsed on the dust jacket by the Times newspaper as “first class”, can’t be fiction; it can’t be fact;  and […]

by Editor - Friday, February 16th, 2024
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