John Helmer is the longest serving foreign correspondent in Russia. DwB is the leading investigative source on Russian business, politics, war strategy.
Moscow, Russia
Joined June 2019
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Nabiullina fires drone at economy, extending 14% rate because US-NATO-Ukraine war is causing “temporary disruptions at production facilities in certain industries”. She demands budget cuts to force “slowdown in consumption growth” cbr.ru/eng/press/event/?id=3…
Backgrounder for the new Jamarl Thomas podcast: johnhelmer.net/when-you-reme…
It’s the 15th anniversary of the US-NATO assassination of Muammar Qaddafi of Libya so in today’s extra-long podcast with Jamarl I am wearing the Libyan farmila and qamis. Click for the read-out, read-down of the Putin-Witkoff meeting. youtube.com/watch?v=m74o9KiW…
This is how the NATO allies, led by the US and including Turkey, aim to fight Russia on the Black Sea – and what Moscow has to say about it. johnhelmer.net/gorilla-radio…
The ghosts are Putin’s support for Israel in Syria; his claim there is no defence cooperation article in the Iran-Russia treaty; and Trump’s reference to his being “very well-behaved on Iran”. johnhelmer.net/sergei-lavrov…
Tune into the new podcast with Nima Alkhorshid, starting at 4pm Moscow, 2pm London, 9am New York: youtube.com/watch?v=E1eOT8cq…
New Russian voter opinion poll reveals Putin’s calculation, miscalculation by Trump, Zelensky wager, and failure of the alt-media to report accurately. johnhelmer.net/slopaganda-in…
HANDS UP, DEFENCES DOWN -- Cyprus applies to Israel to be military satrapy, replacing Russian weapons with Israeli systems salvaged from their Iran missile and drone defeat. en.philenews.com/local/cypru…
THE REAL FRONTERY: “Of course, the delivery of massive and coordinated strikes against the enemy’s military‑industrial complex facilities and logistics centres must continue. Now let’s talk about our tasks for the near term.” kremlin.ru/events/president/…
THE EFFRONTERY: Dmitriev announces he controls the diesel deal with US Treasury to “facilitate…making payments and resolving purely tactical issues related to this [diesel ] deal.” This means what price, whose profit, where hidden. youtube.com/watch?v=54i7wNqM…
Putin hadn’t anticipated there would be attacks on data centres, retail warehouses. He had thought, he said yesterday, the enemy would stick to his tit-for-tat rulebook and “think about the consequences before making this step.” kremlin.ru/events/president/…
The Russian General Staff unleashed at last: t.me/AMK_Mapping/39169 plus t.me/Slavyangrad/181665?sing… plus t.me/Slavyangrad/181665?sing… plus t.me/AMK_Mapping/39086 plus t.me/AMK_Mapping/39221
Shokhin, speaking for OUN, Oligarchs United Now, defends diesel deal: “oil tankers will be able to pass through the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea… protected…more promising than the [Dmitriev] project to build a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait" tass.com/economy/2202331
Look carefully at these four drone attacks off the Bulgarian coast, and you will not see a Russian hand. Whose hand then? johnhelmer.net/the-black-sea…
Zelensky is first NATO ally to declare Trump a lame duck. In FT interview today, declaring himself strong enough “to resume strikes on Russian refineries”, defy threats to cut off intel & sat comms. ft.com/content/4d79b52f-1f0d…
The diesel deal has died – no tanker has set sail for the US; the Kremlin, plus ForMin, insist there is no deal because Zelensky & his allies refuse, and because there is “no connection” -- Putin didn’t ask Trump for an exchange johnhelmer.net/dmitrievs-die…
The diesel deal has died – no tanker has set sail for the US; the Kremlin, plus ForMin, insist there is no deal because Zelensky & his allies refuse, and because there is “no connection” -- Putin didn’t ask Trump for an exchange johnhelmer.net/dmitrievs-die…
Boche bosh, double Dutch – German war crime charges will end in show trial acquittal for Ukrainians. Compare Dutch murder charges ending in conviction of Russians for MH17 shootdown.
German prosecutors reveal Nord Stream bomber in chief was just an “accomplice” “with other military personnel, acting on behalf of Ukrainian government agencies.” generalbundesanwalt.de/Share…
