By John Helmer, Moscow Just over three months after an incident at the Sofitel Hotel, at 45 West 44th Street, New York, resulted in the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the transformation of the French presidential election race, not to mention the management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the New York City prosecutor, Cyrus Vance […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow Russia, it turns out, has the only government in the world able and willing to do real damage to Rupert Murdoch – and throw him out. While the UK and US governments hold their breaths as squads of policemen poke through the Murdoch media files to find evidence of corrupt entertainments […]

by John Helmer - Friday, July 22nd, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow Naivety is not what the British establishment can ever be accused of. Certainly never towards Rupert Murdoch, whose British nickname has been the Dirty Digger — a reference to his business practices and to his Australian nationality. So yesterday in the House of Commons, when the Conservative Party and Labor Party […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, July 7th, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow The International Monetary Fund (IMF) often invoked its sovereign immunity to rape Russia’s governing institutions, including the Central Bank and the Supreme Soviet, in the years of collapse following the end of the Soviet Union. Michel Camdessus, a Frenchman, was the culprit then, instructed by the principal shareholders on the Fund […]

by John Helmer - Monday, May 16th, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow If Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine and internet portal, tells potential share buyers and investors that it is at risk of a hostile takeover by a man like Alisher Usmanov, who owns a stake in the competing Mail.ru portal, then the charge is a serious one. And if to that, Yandex […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
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Excerpts of interview with a journalism school group in Siberia, April 20, 2011 – Where do you work? Moscow, London – What are you working on now?

by John Helmer - Monday, April 25th, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow At least two things are obvious about the Wikileaks disclosures on Russia – one is that a great many cables from the US Embassy Moscow are available in the quarter of a million files obtained by the Guardian newspaper of London; the second is that very few of these have been […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow The paucity of materials on Russia in the Wikileaks archive revealed so far is odd, considering the significance of Russia as a potential threat in the US Government’s global threat assessments.

by John Helmer - Friday, February 18th, 2011
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By John Helmer, Moscow Alisher Usmanov’s enthusiasm for the earnings in the bush has always been more infectious than his success in getting his hand on the bird.

by John Helmer - Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
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by John Helmer - Monday, November 8th, 2010
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