By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Friday (June 19), the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), Elvira Nabiullina, returned from a three-week silence and absence from office that was due, she claimed, to a “cold” and the “loss of my voice”.   The anti-Russia propaganda platform, Financial Times of London, reported three people in the […]

by Editor - Monday, June 22nd, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with US Vice President JD Vance, a Roman Catholic, has launched his presidential campaign for 2028 with the sharpest attack ever made on Israel and the Jewish bloc around President Donald Trump. He has also promised American voters their pockets are about to start filling up as their gas tank costs less […]

by Editor - Friday, June 19th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian officials are insisting in private that tomorrow’s (June 19) signing of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with its fourteen points, is the signal for finalizing a similar multi-point term sheet for agreement with the US to halt the war on the Ukrainian battlefield. They also insist —  add sources […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 18th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The general rule on the battlefield is Bang! Bang! You’re dead! The general rule of White House and Kremlin politics is Bang! Bang! Maybe you’re dead! Maybe I’m dead! Maybe we’re both alive to fight the next round! Meantime let’s all get richer! Hors de combat in war means you’re either KIA […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 18th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As they study the record of the US negotiations for an end to the Iran war, Russian and Chinese intelligence reporters have recently concluded that President Vladimir Putin should now refocus his talks strategy on Vice President JD Vance; ignore Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner, discredited by their performance in Israel […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 18th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On Sunday afternoon, just before he began to eat what his calendar  called a “family dinner”, President Donald Trump believed he had ended his and Israel’s year-long war against Iran. He told the global oil and betting markets: “I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, […]

by Editor - Thursday, June 18th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Rulers often declare official holidays to celebrate what they require those they rule to forget – battlefield defeats, acts of surrender, crimes of treason. Long weekends under a warm summer sun are best for forgetfulness. And so it has been for Russia Day, as the annual June 12 public holiday is […]

by Editor - Saturday, June 13th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week President Vladimir Putin said he believes war propaganda in the media of our time  began with Joseph Goebbels. “As far as the statements by European politicians about their preparations for a war against Russia are concerned,” Putin said on May 29, “that is nonsense. They are allegedly doing this […]

by Editor - Friday, June 12th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Roman Abramovich — the oligarch whom President Vladimir Putin has publicly declared to be “trustworthy and honourable”  and sent to Kiev last month to negotiate war terms  — has what is known on police blotters as FORM. That is a long list of previous offences; dishonesty, deception, bribery, and extortion as […]

by Editor - Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There was a map of the world on the wall of the Billy Mitchell Room of the Arctic Warrior Events Centre. That’s where President Donald Trump met President Vladimir Putin at Elmendorf Richardson Airbase in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. On the map, the world was flat. Crisscrossing it were […]

by Editor - Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
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