Introduced by John Helmer, Moscow, and reported by Christopher Black, Toronto  @bears_with There will be no Russian appeal to the high Dutch courts in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. A district court judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, ruled on November 17 to acquit one Russian and convict two other Russians and a Ukrainian, all fighting for […]

Filed under: EU-Russia, Media, MH17, Ukraine by Editor - Thursday, December 8th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) never told Dutch prosecutors and investigating judges in the MH17 investigation that he had seen US satellite pictures of the firing of a BUK missile at the aircraft and the detonation which destroyed it in the air above eastern Ukraine seven years ago, on […]

Filed under: MH17 by Editor - Sunday, July 11th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The release by the Dutch prosecutors of their presentations last week in the MH17 trial before The Hague District Court reveal the extent of the incompetence and negligence of the two Dutch lawyers paid by Moscow for the defence – Sabine ten Doesschate (lead image, centre) and Boudewjin van Eijck (right). […]

Filed under: DwB, MH17 by Editor - Sunday, April 18th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Dutch Government’s  trial of the Russian Government for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 reached new lows on Thursday when it was revealed in court that the US Government continues to conceal the satellite evidence alleged to show a BUK missile firing at the aircraft; that the release on Dutch […]

Filed under: MH17 by Editor - Thursday, April 15th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of how English law evolved towards the individual rights most state constitutions and the UN’s declaration of human rights proclaim today, the Star Chamber was a nasty piece of work. Over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Star Chamber was a court in London which received indictments prepared […]

Filed under: DwB, MH17 by Editor - Monday, February 8th, 2021
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the November 25 session of the MH17 trial at Schiphol – the final one for this year —  presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis  ruled to accept only those investigations requested by the defence lawyers which are certain to incriminate Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Pulatov. Pulatov is the only one of the four accused to […]

Filed under: DwB, MH17 by Editor - Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Dutch and Russian state officials combined last week to turn the trial of the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 into a farce. Two Rotterdam police defenders, Sabine ten Doesschate and Boudewijn van Eijck, engaged by a Russian foundation to represent Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Pulatov, one of the four accused,  pretended to […]

Filed under: MH17 by Editor - Sunday, November 8th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Dutch Government has rigged the trial for Russian murder in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on June 17, 2014. The outcome will be a guilty verdict. For Prime Minister Mark Rutte, this is more easily predicted than his survival in power in six months’ time, when Dutch voters […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The trial of the crime of the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 resumed on August 31 with the demand of Amsterdam and Rotterdam lawyers for the Russian Government to pay blood money to the relatives of the 298 passengers and crew killed when the aircraft was shot down on July […]

Filed under: DwB, MH17 by Editor - Monday, September 7th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The ruling issued on July 3 by Dutch district court judge Hendrik Steenhuis (lead image, right) requires the Russian defendant, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Pulatov (centre), to prove his innocence with evidence prepared by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). By the standard announced a month earlier by the Russian Foreign Ministry, this is […]

Filed under: DwB, MH17, Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, July 5th, 2020
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