By John Helmer in Moscow Sovcomflot, the Russian state-owned tanker group, reports that, despite rising revenues of $678.6 million in the first six months of this year — up 11% over the same period of 2009 — earnings have fallen 4% to $292.6 million; and net income has dropped 5% to $111.2 million. Revenues rose […]

by John Helmer - Friday, September 24th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow This is the year that makes five hundred since Filofei, a very clever monk of Pskov, wrote an appeal to the ambition of Vasily III, Grand Duke of Muscovy, letting him know that if he played his cards right with the Church, the Church would take care of him better […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
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by John Helmer - Friday, July 30th, 2010
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We need the rest to sharpen up for autumn, and let the squirrel alone to wag his tail and collect his nuts – back soon.

by John Helmer - Friday, July 30th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow In the history of Russia it has never happened before that the oligarchs would take on the military establishment in a tug of war over billion-dollar assets. This couldn’t have happened in the past, because asset power and military strength were the same thing — boyars were warlords. Or else […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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The Levellers – John Wildman, John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Richard Overton et al., 1645-49

by John Helmer - Thursday, July 8th, 2010
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AND FOR SKILL IN ARRANGING POLITICAL PAYOFFS, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, TAX EVASION, MONEY LAUNDERING, EXTORTION, AND BRIBES, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE BUTLER OVERHEARD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNdn42_wN4 Note: for further information on Madame Bettencourt, her confidante, her butler, the tapes, and the court proceedings at Nanterre, use this link.

by John Helmer - Sunday, July 4th, 2010
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The Moscow police disclosed this week that they have decided not to investigate Alfa-Inform, a Moscow security agency, after an individual describing himself as an employee of the company made a telephone threat to put John Helmer in a wheel-chair unless he removed documents relating to Alfa-Inform and Rusal from this website.

by John Helmer - Monday, June 7th, 2010
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