By John Helmer, Moscow Edward Lucas has revealed that he is virtually leaving the UK for Estonia. His wife, Cristina Odone, too. That may be strategic, because they think they should be closer to the front line in the war against Russia. It may be personal, because they want to be closer to their family […]

Filed under: Russian Politics by Editor - Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow The Polish Foreign Ministry continues to declare that when Radosław Sikorski was foreign minister, Edward Lucas (lead image), a reporter for The Economist, was awarded the Bene Merito medal. This is the ministry’s announcement, dated November 13, 2009, and currently to be read on the ministry’s website. The ministry says Sikorski […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow Edward Lucas, a reporter for The Economist in London, has found fault with the accuracy of the report that Anne Applebaum has been receiving unaccountably large sums of money for her stand on the Ukraine civil war and regime change in Russia. For the full story of Applebaum’s employment and payments, […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Thursday, November 6th, 2014
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Repeating lies over and over makes old-fashioned Joseph Goebbels-type propaganda. Repeating lies, then contradicting them; moving them from one government-paid think-tank to another; footnoting a new lie to an older version; quoting policemen and gangsters saying fatuities; adding slang and the words of pop songs—this is still Goebbels-type but  stretched out […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Sunday, October 16th, 2022
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A junior member of Joe Biden’s team in waiting to take over the Pentagon, the State Department, and the National Security Council has recommended the US employ the British method of fighting Russia with the technique of “getting ahead of adversary tactics to strike either just before or immediately after a […]

Filed under: DwB, Skripal by Editor - Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If Pontius Pilate, Judas Iscariot and Joshua Barabbas had combined to produce the eye-witness book on the life and death of Jesus Christ, whose anniversary falls this month, it wasn’t heard of when it was newsworthy, in the first years of the first century AD; readers have been deterred from looking […]

Filed under: Books, Media, Oligarchs by Editor - Thursday, April 16th, 2020
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Repeating lies over and over makes old-fashioned Joseph Goebbels-type propaganda. Repeating lies, then contradicting them; moving them from one government-paid think-tank to another; footnoting a new lie to an older version; quoting policemen and gangsters saying fatuities; adding slang and the words of pop songs—this is still Goebbels-type but  stretched […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Sunday, September 8th, 2019
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By John Helmer, Moscow There’s a reason Albion is well-known as perfidious. Like leopards and spots, it’s because he’s always been that way. In the 1920s the British secret services pursued Russians in the UK with the same zealous tactics and purposes as they have been doing in the past decade. The partial release of […]

Filed under: DwB, Navalny, Skripal by Editor - Sunday, January 13th, 2019
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My corpse managed to keep talking for twenty years. That’s the time it took between the Soviet KGB dosing my champagne with a near-fatal volume of a drug called SP-117, in order to get the truth out of me;  and a Russian oligarch sending two gunmen to fire their pistols into me, to stop the […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Saturday, December 22nd, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow When empires collapse, it’s the death of the big beasts that is noticed first. In time, it’s the midgets of the empire which tell the longer story of the breaks in evolution. Just so, thirty-five million years before the dinosaurs made their exit, several Mesozoic creatures fell into pine resin, and […]

Filed under: US-Russia by Editor - Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
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