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About John Helmer

John Helmer is the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. He first set up his bureau in 1989, making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia.
  • NATIONAL CHAMPION OR NATIONAL CHUMP – OLEG DERIPASKA AND VLADIMIR POTANIN TRY THE RUSAL-NORILSK NICKEL MERGER

    National champion or National chump-Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin try the Rusal-Norilsk nickel merger

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on July 10, 2022 (more by Dances with Bears)

    In wars like the present one, politics on the home front cannot be permitted to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In the U.S. and NATO campaign, the Russian oligarchs and their businesses are targets and also weapons of the plan for regime change in the Kremlin.

  • THE OLIGARCHS PLAY THEIR CARDS

    The Oligarchs play their cards–that’s the loyalty card, the get out of jail free card, the rewards redemption card

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on May 30, 2022 (more by Dances with Bears)

    The Russian regime-change theory motivating U.S. sanctions against the Russian oligarchs is that they will trigger a palace coup in which the oligarchs will arrange a bullet for President Vladimir Putin’s head, and in return the U.S. will give them back the keys to their yachts, mansions, and offshore bank accounts.

  • Grandson / Grandfather

    Naïve questions about Russia’s war economy

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on April 2022 (more by Dances with Bears)

    “Tell me, please, Grandpa,” the little boy asked the Red Army veteran, “what does a war economy mean and how is it different from now?”

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  • From Commodity Fetishism to Teleological Positing: Lukács’s Concept of Labor and Its Relevance
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    The concept of labor constituted a pivotal problematic in Georg Lukács’s theoretical development throughout his Marxist years.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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