From the December 3rd, 2012 New York Times:

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FIRED

Defection Of Air Force’s 3rd-Most Senior General Said By Kremlin Sources To Be Main Factor In C-in-C’s Ouster

From the December 4th, 2012 Guardian:

Leading Oxford Scholar On Russia Says More Military Shakeups Likely In Moscow Soon

From the December 6th, 2012 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

The press secretary at the Russian U.N. mission in New York City has confirmed tonight that the country’s acting U.N. ambassador will be stepping down from his post next week and returning to Moscow to join the staff of his former boss, who is now Russia’s foreign minister....

From the December 8th, 2012 Toronto Globe & Mail:

PRO-NPRM RALLIES HELD IN KRAKOW; 25,000 TURN OUT

Demonstration said to be modeled after November 29th Warsaw rally

From the December 11th, 2012 Washington Post:

RUSSIAN NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RESIGNS

IOC decision to move ’14 Winter Games from Sochi may have been deciding factor

From the December 12th, 2012 broadcast of NBC’s Today Show:

A St. Petersburg independent journalist who recently published an online column supporting an independent investigation of the alleged massacre of Russian rebel prisoners at Khabarovsk was found dead last night from what local police claim was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head...

From the December 15th, 2012 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

As the Obamas prepare to celebrate their last Christmas holiday at the White House, incoming President-elect Mike Huckabee has scheduled a meeting with members of the outgoing commander-in- chief’s foreign policy staff to get their take on the latest turn of events in the civil war in Russia...

From the December 16th, 2012 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

As American, British, Belgian, Canadian, French, and German leaders gather in Brussels to mark the sixty-eighth anniversary of the Battle of the
Bulge the Russian regular army finds itself facing a potentially decisive battle of its own in its now two and a half-year campaign to crush the NRPM uprising against the government of Dmitri Medvedev. Sources at the Russian defense ministry headquarters in Moscow have confirmed that three large units of regular army infantry and a tank detachment are battling insurgent forces near the town of Troitsko Pechorsk...

From the December 18th, 2012 Los Angeles Times:

HARVARD ECONOMIST PREDICTS RUSSIA HEADED FOR ECONOMIC CRISIS IN 6-8 MONTHS

Points to ongoing civil war as chief factor in Moscow’s latest financial woes

From the December 22nd, 2012 broadcast of BBC World News:

The world may not have come to an end yesterday, as some interpretations of the Mayan calendar suggested it would, but Russian president Dmitri Medvedev certainly appears to be threatened with a political apocalypse. The Moscow News is reporting today that a growing dissident faction within his own political party is pushing for Medvedev to resign from office in favor of new leadership they believe can negotiate a peaceful resolution to the guerrilla war with the NRPM insurgency that has been raging since 2010....

From the December 23rd, 2012 broadcast of Nine News Morning Hour:

The Australian embassy in Moscow is reporting gunfire at this hour in the streets just outside the embassy compound....Russian government security forces appear to have opened fire on a crowd of students who were staging a sit-in demanding an end to the civil war between the administration of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev and the NRPM rebel army that has been trying to topple Medvedev for more than two and a half years....

From the December 24th, 2012 broadcast of CBS Evening News:

The battle for Troitsko Pechorsk appears to be drawing to a close; a report by al-Jazeera broadcast two hours ago indicates Russian regular army units near the town are getting ready to pull back from their current defensive positions as rebel forces step up their attacks....

In a related story, Vice President-elect Mitt Romney held a press conference at his Belmont, Massachusetts home blasting yesterday’s attack by Russian government security forces on peace activists who were staging a sit-in near the heart of Moscow to protest the Medvedev government’s refusal to open cease-fire discussions with the NRPM....

From the December 26th, 2012 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

It is a rather somber Boxing Day at the British High Commissioner’s offices in Moscow. The commissioner’s public affairs department has confirmed that three diplomatic personnel have been killed and eleven others injured in an apparent attack on the office compound by pro- Medvedev government extremists....

From the December 28th, 2012 Montreal Gazette:

CANADIAN SENATE SET TO APPROVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

New embargo being instituted in response to December 23rd Moscow massacre

From the December 30th, 2012 broadcast of Good Morning America:

While most New Year’s Eve gatherings in Moscow have been cancelled or postponed due to the ongoing civil war in Russia, at least one prominent anti-government activist group is going ahead with plans to hold a demonstration in Red Square tomorrow night to urge that Dmitri Medvedev step down as Russian president...

From a message posted at MSNBC.com just after 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern time on December 31st, 2012:

BREAKING NEWS--Al-Jazeera reports gun battle underway between Moscow police and Russian regular army units

From a CBC News special bulletin that same day:

Sources in Moscow have confirmed that elements of the city’s Militsya police branch are exchanging gunfire with Russian regular army troops in
what appears to be a mutiny against the Ministry of Internal Affairs...

From the book Rebels With A Badge: The Moscow Police Mutiny, copyright 2055 Regnery Publishing:

Although it was ultimately suppressed by security forces and military units loyal to the government, the Moscow police mutiny was still a major
shock for the Medvedev government, which had previously assumed its police forces’ loyalty to be ironclad...

From the January 1st, 2013 broadcast of Good Morning America:

The new year is getting off to a violent start in Moscow, where seventeen police officers and eight Russian government soldiers are dead in the first mutiny by the Russian capital’s law enforcement agencies since the 1917 October Revolution....

From the January 2nd, 2013 New York Times:

SPORADIC FIGHTING CONTINUES IN MOSCOW BETWEEN ARMY AND POLICE

Medvedev Admits “Situation Grave” But Says Government Forces Will Prevail

From a bulletin posted at NBCNews.com on January 4th, 2013:

Developing Story--AP reports anti-Medvedev police mutiny in Moscow collapsing

From the evening edition of Nine News that same day:

The last traces of the so-called New Year’s Day mutiny are being swept up from Red Square tonight as Russian regular army personnel have arrested the primary leaders of the uprising, which is now estimated to have left thirty-six Moscow police personnel and twenty-two government army soldiers dead. The chief architect of the revolt has been identified as a suspected Evgeny Petrov Brigade sympathizer...

To Be Continued