By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Sovcomflot, Russia’s dominant shipping company and (next to the Chinese) the world’s most valuable energy tanker fleet, announced yesterday that in 2020 its earnings had risen almost 10%, and its profit jumped by over 18%. However, the stock market is decidedly unimpressed. On the Moscow Stock Exchange, where Sovcomflot shares have […]

by Editor - Monday, March 15th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with William Brumfield is an American university professor who has specialised in photographing Russian architecture before the Revolution, especially churches. His pictures are optimistic, not so much for the revival of the Orthodox God as for the recovery of Church property from before (lead image, right).  If one of Brumfield’s pictures could […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 11th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When the organ claiming to be the world’s leading financial newspaper conceals the large price subsidy for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured by the NATO allies, in order to accuse Russia of price gouging the poor, you can be sure you are watching an information warfare attack. And when the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
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By Liane Theuerkauf ,  Munich, and John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between his arrival in Berlin on August 22, his release from the Charité medical clinic on September 22,  and January 16, the day before his return to Russia, Alexei Navalny performed the nineteenth century ritual of walking in forests, thinking. The German term for this is […]

by Editor - Sunday, February 28th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Last week in a Moscow court, Michael Bloomberg’s (lead image, right) organisation of New York City did something it has never done before. It admitted it has been publishing lies about Russia.  It also paid a penalty of Rb12,600 ($170.25). Bloomberg even promised that in future its reporting on Russia will […]

by Editor - Thursday, February 25th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Victor Kharitonin (lead image, left), Alexei Repik, Kirill Syrov, and Vikram Punia aren’t household names in Russia. What they do for a living is. This is because they control the largest pharmaceutical producers in the country. So profitable are their companies that each of them has become a dollar billionaire with […]

by Editor - Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The mystery of what the Berlin doctors treating Alexei Navalny discovered in his bloodstream and urine tests in Germany has deepened after the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly referred last week to the clinical findings of a Swiss-based neurologist, Vitaly Kozak. Kozak has been reporting for several weeks that the […]

by Editor - Monday, February 15th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The alternative media have done as much to reinforce the lawlessness of state officials,  corporations and courts as the mainstream media. How they have done this, and why, are topics in discussion in this interview with Canada’s leading broadcaster for brains which haven’t been immunocompromised by fear and faking.

by Editor - Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last unanswered question about Alexei Navalny was answered this week in a Moscow courtroom by Navalny himself. For the first time he didn’t have production back-up from his MI6 helper, Maria Pevchikh of London,  or his CIA and BND teams in the Black Forest of Baden-Württemberg. The question is a […]

by Editor - Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of how English law evolved towards the individual rights most state constitutions and the UN’s declaration of human rights proclaim today, the Star Chamber was a nasty piece of work. Over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Star Chamber was a court in London which received indictments prepared […]

by Editor - Monday, February 8th, 2021
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