by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Tuesday afternoon the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi “at the Iranian side’s initiative.” The Kremlin communiqué was posted at 1540 Moscow time.  What followed was reported by Raisi’s office at 1808 Tehran time. There was a lag of two hours […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with No Russian military source will publicly express the line that Iran’s attack on Israel of April 14 was a strategic success, despite the tactical shortcomings. This is first of all because Iran is a strategic ally of Russia in its war against the US and NATO in the Ukraine, in Syria, […]

by Editor - Monday, April 15th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It was a relatively bright day, November 21, 1920, when Vladimir Lenin, having won the civil war and driven off the American, British, French, Canadian, and Australian invasion forces, announced: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, since industry cannot be developed without electrification.”   Come November […]

by Editor - Monday, April 15th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Triumphalism and self-promotion by US alt-media generals (er, colonels, majors, lieutenants) and Donald Trump contribute nothing of value to the Russian analysis of the Iran’s operation against Israel on Saturday night, April 13. That’s to say, analysis, not of who has gained, who has lost, but of what there is to […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 14th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Advertisements for replacements of Vladimir Zelensky aren’t unusual, even if he has disposed of almost all of them already. That leaves just one, Andrei Yermak, head of the Presidential Office —  prompter, grey eminence, comfort blanket of Zelensky in almost every significant move he has made since 2019– and now candidate […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 11th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ice cream is ancient enough to have been demanded by at least three well-known emperors – Alexander the Great of Greece, Nero of Rome, and Charles I of England, all of them ill-fated. Ice cream, as we know it, doesn’t become easy to eat until it ceased to be plutocratic.  Refrigeration […]

by Editor - Monday, April 8th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The unity of Russia’s multiethnic society,” President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Trade Union Congress on Thursday, “is the main fundamental condition of our success. In this connection, and based on the initial results of the investigation, we have grounds to believe that the main goal of those who masterminded the […]

by Editor - Friday, April 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In two public performances of less than two minutes apiece, Chrystia Freeland (lead images), Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and leader of Canada’s war against Russia, has demonstrated bizarre facial and upper torso symptoms. Political analysts and psychiatrists have been asked if they believe Freeland is suffering from a clinical […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 4th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Go West, young man – that American slogan of the mid-19th century  is not an idea the Ukrainian men of Odessa,  Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava and Sumy can contemplate today as long as the danger of press ganging into the army in Kiev and Lvov is a higher risk to their lives than […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Russian pollsters have published no nationwide surveys of Russian public responses to the Crocus City Hall attack on March 22 in the immediate aftermath, nor in the days which have followed the capture of the four gunmen and release of evidence of their links to the Ukraine.   A Ukrainian propaganda […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
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