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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You:

The Third Russian Revolution

 

By Chris Oakley

Part 11

 

 

 

From the May 20th, 2011 New York Times:

KAZAKHSTAN CLOSES ITS EMBASSY IN MOSCOW; RUSSIAN EMBASSY STAFF IN ASTARA EXPELLED

 

From the May 22nd, 2011 broadcast of Nine News:

...European leaders tonight are expressing grave concern about the break in Russian-Kazakh relations as the two countries continue to trade charges and countercharges concerning alleged Russian plans to invade Kazakhstan. The Russian government has accused the Kazakhs of secretly aiding the NRPM’s uprising against the government of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev....

 

From the May 25th, 2011 Rand Daily Mail:

SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW DAMAGED IN ANTI-KAZAKH RIOTING

 

From the May 26th, 2011 broadcast of BBC World News:

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has been appointed to chair a U.N.-sponsored panel on alleviating the plight of the estimated 200,000 refugees from Russia’s ongoing civil war, currently in its second year...

 

From the May 28th, 2011 Boston Herald:

KAZAKHS? TOP GENERAL: WE?RE READY TO RUMBLE

Army C-in-C pledges his troops will resist if Russia invades

From the May 29th, 2011 Washington Post:

 

RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ALLEGES KAZAKH TROOPS HAVE FIRED

ON RUSSIAN ARMY BORDER PATROLS; KAZAKHS SAY ALLEGATIONS FALSE

 

From the May 30th, 2011 broadcast of Today:

Memorial Day will be an even more somber occasion than usual this year in our nation’s capital as the Obama administration continues its efforts to bring a peaceful end to the civil war in Russia and tries to avert armed conflict between Russia and Kazakhstan, who broke off diplomatic relations over ten days ago...

 

From the June 2nd, 2011 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

The government of Britain’s prime minister David Cameron is taking severe criticism from its constituents over its handling of the present crisis along the Russian-Kazakh border. According to a Guardian poll which will be published later today, 76% of those surveyed believe the current prime minister is not doing enough to deter Russia from going to war with Kazakhstan....

 

From the June 4th, 2011 New York Times:

KREMLIN CHARGES KAZAKH PLANE WITH VIOLATING RUSSIAN AIRSPACE

 

From the June 7th, 2011 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

Three days after the Russian government accused the Kazakh air force of violating Russia’s airspace, Kazakhstan is charging that Russian spy planes have been making repeated overflights of Kazakh territory...

 

From the June 9th, 2011 Washington Times:

Defense Department Report Says Russian-Kazakh Border War May Erupt Before End Of Summer

 

From the June 13th, 2011 London Times:

CAMERON-MEDVEDEV SUMMIT CANCELLED

PM cites illness as reason for his decision, denies Kazakh border crisis played any role in the cancellation

 

From the June 15th, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

China has offered to mediate the escalating border dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan...

 

From the June 18th, 2011 broadcast of Nine News:

As Russia and Kazakhstan continue to teeter on the brink of war, Russian regular army units have staged a landing at the island of Novaya Zemlya in an operation intended to root out suspected NRPM cells on that island....

 

From the June 19th, 2011 Jerusalem Post:

ISRAEL NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM POSTPONES KAZAKHSTAN EXHIBITION MATCH

Organizers cite safety concerns related to Kazakh-Russian border crisis

 

From the June 22nd, 2011 broadcast of CBS Morning News:

70 years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and 13 months after Russia was plunged into civil war, the Russian government finds itself confronted with still another deadly armed conflict. Sources at the Kazakh embassy in Washington have confirmed with the past half-hour that the prime minister of Kazakhstan will be giving a televised address to his countrymen at noon Eastern Standard Time to make the formal announcement that a state of war now exists between Kazakhstan and Russia following what Reuters reports was an apparent Russian commando raid on a Kazakh border guard post....

 

From the June 23rd, 2011 Sydney Morning Herald:

MEDVEDEV DENIES COMMANDO ATTACK ON KAZAKHSTAN, ACCUSES

KAZAKH GOVERNMENT OF "WANTON AGGRESSION"

 

From the June 25th, 2011 Manchester Guardian:

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER DENOUNCES "RUSSIAN BELLIGERENCE" TOWARD KAZAKHSTAN

U.N. SUSPENDS KHABAROVSK INVESTIGATION AMID TURMOIL IN SECURITY COUNCIL

 

From the June 28th, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

President Obama will be giving televised press conference at 11:00 AM Eastern time tomorrow to outline his proposals for ending the 13-month-old civil war in Russia and the armed conflict which broke out six days ago between Russia and Kazakhstan....

 

From the June 30th, 2011 Washington Post:

LONDON TIMES WRITER JAILED IN MOSCOW ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES

Detained journalist had been investigating allegations of war crimes at Novaya Zemlya

 

From a story posted at CNN.com on July 2nd, 2011:

BREAKING NEWS--RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMS AIR STRIKES ON ASTARA

 

From an editorial posted at Townhall.com on July 3rd, 2011:

It seems a sad irony that while America celebrates its independence, the Kazakh people are in danger of losing theirs...


From stories posted at MSNBC.com on July 6th, 2011:

BREAKING NEWS: ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS RUSSIAN TANKS SIGHTED

10 MILES OUTSIDE ASTARA, GEORG KRIEGER SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON

 

From the July 8th, 2011 broadcast of BBC World News:

Russian ground forces in Kazakhstan are encountering heavier than expected resistance as they attempt to capture the Kazakh capital city, Astara. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman told BBC News this afternoon that the latest intelligence reports from British defence attachés in the region indicate at least a third of the original Russian attack force has been lost to enemy fire...

 

To Be Continued

 

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