By John Helmer, Moscow In publishing on Russia, there comes a time when a writer, journalist, bank analyst, television presenter, or academic produces something so lacking in truthfulness, so replete with fawning and meretriciousness, that this website must kill and skin another goat; dry out the vellum; and have a fresh scroll inscribed with the […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
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By John Helmer, Moscow Tall stories told by newspapers and their reporters generally don’t start wars. But they do justify them in advance. Afterwards they protect the officials who start them from being prosecuted for war crimes. On August 5, 1964, there was no truth in President Lyndon Johnson’s claim – reported by every major […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, July 26th, 2012
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March 30, 2010 Stephanie Baker and Yuriy Humber for the athletic feat of reporting Mikhail Prokhorov’s all-win business career without detecting a single foul, penalty, or loss. Link: http://johnhelmer.online/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Mikhail-Prokhorov-May-2010.pdf

by John Helmer - Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
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July 14, 2009 Tim Whehell and BBC Newsnight for beating the English language of a UK High Court ruling into the opposite of what it said about the nature of Russian justice, its beneficiaries and victims http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8146052.stm Letters Sent: 17 July 2009 14:47 To: Tim Whewell Subject: Your evidence please Dear Tim: In your recent […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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May 8-July 3, 2009 Adam Waldman of The Endeavor Group, Washington, DC, for “correction” of media publications reporting that he is Oleg Deripaska’s lobbyist to recover Deripaska’s US visa, revoked by the US State Department in 2006 Registration with the US Department of Justice by Adam Waldman for The Endeavour Group, pursuant to the Foreign […]

by John Helmer - Friday, May 8th, 2009
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April 18-19, 2009 Ben Fenton of the Financial Times, London, for “Standard’s new owner adopts hands-off approach”: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8989b3a-2bb0-11de-b806-00144feabdc0.html Letter

by John Helmer - Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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