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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A US Army general or CIA officer who made this many mistakes would be fired or shot. johnhelmer.net/the-legless-p…
Vzglyad reports Dmitriev has persuaded Putin to play Trump standover tactic against China to finalize Baikal Power Project (aka Power of Siberia-2) gas pipeline which is still delayed in disputes over price & delivery volume terms. vz.ru/economy/2026/10/28/146…
Trump family bribery is a voter liability in the US, a warfighting opportunity in Russia. When Putin compliments Melania Trump repeatedly, he is reminding that it’s pay-up time. johnhelmer.net/friendlykreml…
Putin, Dmitriev think a “European revolution” will save Russia from Ratcliffe’s CIA attack. johnhelmer.net/what-is-the-t…
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…
