by John Helmer - Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The oldest form of Chinese wrestling (jǐao dǐ) involved the contestants literally locking horns with the objective of head-butting each other into insensibility. Half a millennium later, the Chinese emperors decided that there was more military value in training their soldiers to knock opponents off their feet.

by Editor - Monday, April 19th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow One celebration drink too many in Bar Vogue, in downtown Almaty, has turned out to leave a very bad taste for lawyers advising hard-rock mining and oil project start-ups in Kazakhstan. In a 216-page judgement issued this month, after three years of litigation across half the globe, a group of […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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By John Helmer in Moscow Hard on the heels of a Russian Foreign Ministry warning to Canada against denying an entry visa to Senator Mikhail Margelov last week, a veteran of Volgotanker, once Russia’s largest oil transportation fleet, announced today that he is challenging Interpol for encouraging the arrest of travellers on charges trumped up […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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By John Helmer in Moscow BHPB’s Russian relationship hostage to Canberra uranium threat as Australian govt invokes Caucasus war to stir uranium sale opposition. A threat last week by Australian politicians to revoke a year-old agreement for Australian uranium concentrate to be processed into fuel in Russia has been met with calm in Moscow, where […]

by John Helmer - Monday, September 8th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow The two dominant Australian vices are not indigenous. Envy came with the Irish Catholics, who were at first the convict, then the indentured, and finally the working class. Hypocrisy came with the English Protestants, who began their economic enterprise in the country by declaring the land unoccupied (“terra nullius” was […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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MOSCOW (Mineweb.com) –The two dominant Australian vices are not indigenous. Envy came with the Irish Catholics, who were at first the convict, then the indentured, and finally the working class. Hypocrisy came with the English Protestants, who began their economic enterprise in the country by declaring the land unoccupied (“terra nullius” was the pseudo-legal expression), […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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