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If you are aware of John Helmer's blog Dancing with Bears, frequently linked to here, you may be interest in this. Otherwise, not so much.IrrussianalityBook Review – John HelmerPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
Read More »Jack Peat — British Overseas Territories playing huge role in laundering dirty money from Russia
The amount of money held by Russians in the UK is dwarfed by the amount held in the British Overseas Territories, which include some of the world’s most significant tax havens. The Global Witness report, Missing the Bigger Picture, is released as politicians have called for a crackdown on criminal and corrupt cash from Russia following the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and ahead of a crucial vote in parliament to increase transparency in the UK’s tax havens on Tuesday 1 May. The analysis of...
Read More »John Helmer — We Are Back, Again – Just Two Years to Go Before the Profession of Journalism Disappears, but Will the Russian Oligarchs Go First?
Mostly on sanctioning Russian oligarchs that the US "advisers" in the Yeltsin years created the conditions for though speedy neoliberal privatization of state assets in the belief that "the market will sort it out." "The market" was assumed to be US control. When that blew up as the Russian economy collapsed and social unrest rose, the US decided on another tack to get back in the driver's seat.Dances with BearsWe Are Back, Again – Just Two Years to Go Before the Profession of Journalism...
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