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[l] at 11/22/24 1:07am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is the comic book version of what really happened, as revealed by the clumsiest judge in  England – Anthony Hughes (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley, lead image, right). Even if all the evidence presented to Hughes and already endorsed by him is true – on the record of six and []

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[l] at 11/17/24 11:47pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In politics the Kremlin is no exception politicians don’t mean what they say.  In gardening, the plants always mean what they say. Gardeners, obliged to record what that is, are more likely than politicians to tell the truth. In the records of Russian politicians since the Bolshevik Revolution, only []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 11/17/24 2:35pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Sunday afternoon the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a massive strike of air and sea-launched missiles and drones have struck and destroyed parts of the Ukrainian electricity grid in the western regions of the Ukraine, as well as in Odessa and Nikolaev in the southeast.   The Mukachevo interconnector station []

[Category: DwB, Ukraine]

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[l] at 11/16/24 1:22am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just []

[Category: Skripal]

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[l] at 11/14/24 11:52pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Anthony Hughes, the retired judge (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley) directing the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London, opened the questioning of a senior British Government chemical warfare agent on Wednesday by telling him “youre not bound by your statement, but by all means use it to refresh your recollection”   page []

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[l] at 11/13/24 10:59pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This week’s announcements of emergency electricity rationing and scheduled power supply cuts in the farwestern Ukrainian regions of Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia indicate that pinpoint drone targeting by the Russian General Staff is a new stage in the electric war since President Vladimir Putin put on pause long-range missile attacks on []

[Category: Ukraine]

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[l] at 11/12/24 12:21am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Between wishful thinking and delusional thinking in normal life, there can be the psychiatrist’s couch and prescription of Prozac capsules swallowed once a day. In politics – Russian politics are no exception – there can be media debate so that in between plan, action, and outcome it is possible to []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 11/11/24 12:08am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Vladimir Putin, September 5, 2024: “As for my preferences, it is not up to us to decide. After all, the American people will have to make their own choice. As I have already said, we favoured Mr Biden, the current President, but they took him out of the race. That said, []

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[l] at 11/10/24 1:30am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with To reflect upon, today’s Sabbath reading comes from two Russian texts. One was a prepared script followed by impromptu elaboration which took place in Sochi on November 7. The second text followed in Moscow after the notorious football match in Amsterdam which happened later on the same day. The first reading []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 11/7/24 12:15am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Forcing Sergei and Yulia Skripal into artificial coma, intubating them so that they could not speak, and barring them from public testimony are now revealed in the Novichok show trial under way in London. Resuscitating Dawn Sturgess from cardiac arrest and brain death in order to make her a victim of []

[Category: Skripal]

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[l] at 11/6/24 11:56pm
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The single most important witness in six years of investigations into the cause of Dawn Sturgess’s death, the pathologist appointed by the government to conduct her post-mortem, has testified that he failed to discover Novichok in his eleven-hour long autopsy. Instead, his official reports from 2018 reveal that he was told []

[Category: Skripal]

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[l] at 11/5/24 1:34am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The British Government’s narrative that Russian military agents, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, used Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018 continues to collapse. A secret chemical warfare agent revealed last week that two tests for Novichok, using special machines provided by the Porton Down chemical warfare laboratory, failed to confirm []

[Category: DwB, Skripal]

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[l] at 11/5/24 1:10am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with For more than two months now, President Vladimir Putin’s orders to the General Staff have been to shorten the range of the electric war campaign to the area east of Kiev and the Dnieper River, and west of the advancing line of Russian forces. The General Staff have responded by limiting []

[Category: DwB, Ukraine]

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[l] at 11/5/24 12:36am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with It’s a pity when a 760-page history of the Russian leadership’s thinking during the Cold War period, 1945 to 2022, earns consignment to the waste bin within the first nineteen pages, and in just three sentences. This ratio of toxicity to prolixity – 1 to 40 is exceptional, although the []

[Category: DwB, US-Russia]

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[l] at 11/2/24 1:29am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal (lead image) unconscious to silence them. That was six years ago, when they were in Salisbury District Hospital in March 2018. Now, prevented from testifying in public at the public inquiry under way []

[Category: Skripal]

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[l] at 10/26/24 3:25am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Ragpicking is a serious women’s business, extracting value from rubbish. Cheerleading is the unserious business of girls waving pompoms at football games. There are those who claim the Kazan Declaration is today’s equivalent of the Bretton Woods Final Act (1944) and Bandung Declaration (1955),  or a “a huge manifesto”,    or “victory []

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[l] at 10/25/24 2:52am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The British Government’s investigation of the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal, which they survived, and Dawn Sturgess, who died, has now run for six and half years. The public presentation of evidence and witnesses has completed its first week; the second week of hearings will begin next Monday, []

[Category: Skripal]

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[l] at 10/23/24 1:54am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A two-month delay in Russian missile strikes against Ukrainian electricity infrastructure west of the Dnieper River and secret talks on end-of-war terms by the Kremlin go-between Vladimir Medinsky (lead image, right) produced two signals from Kiev on Monday – one an offer by Vladimir Zelensky to reciprocate with a limit on []

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[l] at 10/21/24 12:56am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was murdered on October 20, 2011, and to mark the thirteenth anniversary of his death, the Russian Foreign Ministry received Qaddafi’s daughter, Aisha Qaddafi, in Moscow on Friday. This is the first open meeting in Russia between high-ranking Russian officials and the Qaddafi family. The political []

[Category: DwB, Israel, Mideast]

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[l] at 10/18/24 1:38am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The winners of the war are the Russian General Staff. Everyone in Russia understands that the Russian Army is winning and will win this war…I believe Gilbert is wrong on the history of the negotiations that have gone on since before this war began… It’s [Russian] military protection that guarantees [Ukrainian] []

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[l] at 10/16/24 1:17am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with According to the Russian Constitution amendments adopted in 2020,  Vladimir Putin can run for re-election in 2030 and win another term until 2036, when he will be 84. The contest over the presidential succession may thus be postponed for another decade. Or else it is under way already. That’s one of []

[Category: DwB]

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