Armenia’s Anti-Russians Get Their Comeuppance – Defeat Analysed in Moscow as Due to Strategic Failure in Yerevan The purge of Russian-trained commanders hasn't worked out so well John Helmer 30 Oct 20 1785 15
Russian Scientist Says Second COVID Wave Impossible in Moscow, the City Already Well on Its Way to Herd Immunity Pavel Volchkov, Russian leader in genomic engineering John Helmer 22 Jul 20 922 14
War in Syria Why Syrian Army Positions Really Collapsed on First Day of Erdogan’s All-Out Offensive Not true that Russians had left them out to dry — and now that they've recovered Erdogan is going to Moscow with a weak hand John Helmer 3 Mar 20 4838 16
Sergei and Yulia Skripal “Desperate” and “Under House Arrest” in Britain — The Sun Locking up the victim to cover up the real perpetrator (and the real crime) John Helmer 3 Mar 20 1953 14
Those Pesky Russians Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him From His Idlib Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military Erdogan's incursion and appeals for US help have set back the pro-Turkish current in Moscow, consolidated Russia's position around the military view John Helmer 25 Feb 20 4672 14
Putin Eliminates the Medvedev Faction From the Kremlin Putin's reorganization a huge setback for system liberals John Helmer 17 Jan 20 2360 9
German Parliament Office Reports No Russian Invasion of Eastern Ukraine, Rejects Media and Government Propaganda Takes a look and finds no reliable information to support the claim John Helmer 15 Jan 20 1593 2
Turkey Enters Gas Wars on Russia’s Side, Hampers Med Pipelines That Would Detract From Turk Stream Erdogan wants all the transit fees he can get, and he isn't one for market competition John Helmer 14 Dec 19 1901 4
Our Benevolent Empire British MoD Document Reveals Chain of Custody Over Skripal Blood Samples Missing. ‘Evidence’ of Russian Novichok Attack Worthless "The samples analyzed by Porton Down aren’t provably from the Skripals at all" John Helmer 6 Dec 19 914 8
The NYT Sets Up Ukrainian Oligarch With Dirt on Biden and Clinton for Public Enemy Number One Who and why was in a rush to burn Kolomoisky who until now had been such a useful US asset in Kiev? John Helmer 14 Nov 19 1490 2
The Sultan Blinked, the Tsar Turned a Blind Eye – the Ottoman Empire Expands by 118 Kilometres of Syria After perhaps the longest, bitterest negotiation between the two ever John Helmer 23 Oct 19 1128 2
Those Pesky Russians In the War for Syria’s Highway M4, the Kremlin Turks Have Been Beaten to the Punch by the Russian General Staff And the Foreign Ministry — for the moment John Helmer 18 Oct 19 3605 3
Putin Endorses Netanyahu for Re-Election – Shoigu and Lavrov Make Clear He’s Only Speaking for Himself Putin had one message for Netanyahu — the Russian military a completely different one John Helmer 16 Sep 19 5596 66
The Cypriot Military Wants to Defend Its Oil From Turkey Using Asymmetric Strategy Resting on Midget Submarines Disagrees with the Greek plan to gain security by turning back on Russia and becoming a protectorate of the unreliable US John Helmer 10 Sep 19 499 2
Is There a Turkish Lobby in Moscow? Who Does It Feed in the Kremlin? Since Turkey did not join in the anti-Russian sanctions, economic ties between the two have flourished, but the military in particular remains sceptical about Russia's new "friend" John Helmer 8 Aug 19 771 4
Persia Under Siege Each US Military Threat Against Iran This Year Has Been Matched by a Russian General Staff Response Iran is adding Russian defensive weapons and technology but the FSB won't allow Russian experts to talk about it John Helmer 5 Aug 19 2727 2
NATO Squabbles EU Sanctions Turkey for Illegal Oil Drilling Around Cyprus, Ankara Fires Back by Tearing Up Anti-Migrant Agreement As Greece accepts to become an American anti-Russian satrapy in return for support vs Turkey John Helmer 1 Aug 19 1255 12
Rebel Donbass MH17 Evidence Tampering Revealed by Malaysia – The Dutch Covered-Up Forged Telephone Tapes, Ukraine Hid Radar Records The FBI attempted to seize black boxes, and witness testimony was misreported John Helmer 23 Jul 19 4887 4
Helmer: Russia Has Bolstered Iran’s Air Defenses With Technical Advisers To help speed up Iranian reaction times John Helmer 25 Jun 19 5233 8
Russian Defense Minister Honors Legendary German-Soviet Spy at Tokyo Grave Richard Sorge told Stalin Japan would not attack allowing him to move Siberian division to rebuke the Germans at Moscow John Helmer 2 Jun 19 584 2