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John Helmer has is own web site: http://johnhelmer.net/


Mineweb has a Policy on share transactions(at bottom), does this apply to his personal site? I find no such disclosure on johnhelmer.net
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John Helmer - Moscow Specialist Contributor

John is the most unlikely doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia, not simply because he has been despatching the news from Moscow for longer than anyone else - since 1989, 18 years - but because he's the only foreign reporter to work independently of the big national or multinational media groups, and to specialize in Russian business.

Educated at Harvard University, with an academic career teaching sociology and a political career advising governments far behind him now, Helmer is the South African correspondent in Moscow. He is one of the most widely read specialists in the business world for his news-breaking stories on Russian base and precious metals, diamonds, mining, shipping, insurance, food trade, and business policy.

Helmer traces his family's origin in Russia to the 19th century. He is now married with a Russian wife and daughter, the former a psychologist, the latter an actress. One of his ancestors had a narrow escape from Napoleon's army in 1812. Others were lost in the German siege of Leningrad in 1942. He himself had a lucky scrape with the KGB in 1989, when he was put to sleep with a drug-laced glass of champagne, and then interrogated, before he was given the antidote to bring him round. "I've had even luckier escapes since then," he says. "In mining, as in life, I'm afraid I've gotten to know where all the skeletons have been buried, and also several who have risen from the grave."

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