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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 19
From the June 10th, 2012 Montreal
Gazette:
17 INJURED AS CAR BOMB EXPLODES NEAR RUSSIAN
EMBASSY IN MADRID
Pro-Kazakh Extremist Group Claims Credit For
Attack
From the June 11th, 2012 broadcast of
ABC’s World News Tonight:
The results of the autopsy on the late
commander-in-chief of the Russian army’s Spetsnaz forces are due to be
released later this week amid growing fears within the Kremlin his death may
have been part of a mutiny attempt
...
From the June 13th, 2012 broadcast of
BBC World News:
Valery Kazrenko, the Russian air force officer
who defected to the NRPM four months ago, has surfaced on the Internet in a
digital video urging his former air force comrades to join the insurgency....
From the June 16th, 2012 Jerusalem
Post:
LEADING MOSCOW INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST QUESTIONS
AUTOPSY
REPORT ON SPETSNAZ COMMANDER
Suggests Kremlin May Be Concealing Vital Details
On General’s Death
From the June 17th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
The Russian military’s top legal official was
fired today just hours after he sent an e-mail to Russia’s defense minister
recommending an independent probe into the alleged suicide of the head of the
Russian regular army’s famed Spetsnaz commando corps...
From the June 18th, 2012
Washington Post:
TWO ARRESTS MADE IN MADRID CAR BOMBING
Police still hunting for additional suspects
From the June 20th, 2012 Irish
Examiner:
IRELAND’S FM OFFERS MEDIATION AID TO RUSSIANS,
KAZAKHS
IN LATEST BORDER ROW
From the June 23rd, 2012 broadcast of
BBC Breakfast:
Prime Minister Cameron is set to convene a
special meeting of his senior foreign policy staff tomorrow as the latest
diplomatic crisis between Moscow and Astara continues to intensify in the
aftermath of the Madrid embassy car bombing...
From the June 25th, 2012 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
Security at the Canadian embassy in Moscow is on
full alert tonight after riots by anti-Kazakh extremists protesting a recent
Toronto Globe & Mail investigative report alleging possible ties
between the Madrid embassy car bombers and elements of the Russian
intelligence community...
From the June 26th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
President Obama is taking time out from his busy
re-election campaign schedule to meet with the Russian and Kazakh ambassadors
to the United States for a discussion on what if anything can be done to
resolve the latest tensions between Russia and Kazakhstan...
From the June 28th, 2012
Süddeutsche Zeitung:
RUSSIAN REBELS CLASH WITH GOVERNMENT TROOPS NEAR
OB RESERVOIR
From the June 30th, 2012 Montreal
Gazette:
PRO-KAZAKH RALLY DRAWS CROWD OF 25,000 AT MCGILL
FIGHTING CONTINUES NEAR OB RESERVOIR
From the July 1st, 2012 broadcast of
CBS Evening News With Katie Couric:
Russian government forces fighting NRPM
insurgents in the area around the Ob Reservoir are using unmanned drone attack
aircraft in an attempt to dislodge a rebel rocket position....
From the July 2nd, 2012 Toronto
Globe & Mail:
ETHNIC VIOLENCE AGAINST RUSSIANS MARS CANADA DAY
CELEBRATIONS IN CALGARY
From the July 3rd, 2012 broadcast of
CBS’ The Early Show:
As America prepares to celebrate her 226th
Independence Day, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is en route to Vienna to
meet with Russian and Kazakh diplomats in hopes of resolving the latest
standoff between those two countries....
From the July 5th, 2012 Washington
Post:
RUSSIAN INSURGENTS CLAIM TOTAL CONTROL OF AREA
SURROUNDING OB RESERVOIR
From the July 8th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
On tonight’s broadcast: Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton returns from Vienna in a somber mood following the collapse of
her efforts to resolve the latest Russian-Kazakh standoff....And the probe
into the death of a top Russian Spetsnaz general takes a startling turn as
evidence is uncovered confirming his ties to a suspected mutiny plot
inside the ranks of Moscow’s officer corps...
From a story posted at CBSNews.com on July 13th,
2012:
Developing Story--Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov Resigns
From the broadcast of ABC’s World News
Tonight that same day:
Political and diplomatic experts throughout the
world are trying to sort out what the abrupt resignation of longtime Russian
foreign minister Sergei Lavrov means for efforts to resolve the current
standoff between Russia and Kazakhstan....
From the July 14th, 2012
Washington Post:
LAVROV RESIGNATION CASTS DOUBT ON STABILITY OF
MEDVEDEV GOVERNMENT
RUSSIAN REBEL FORCES FIGHTING TO EXPAND ON GAINS
IN OB RESERVOIR REGION
From the July 16th, 2012 broadcast of
Vremya:
President Medvedev will address the nation
tomorrow regarding Foreign Minister Lavrov’s resignation and the situation
near the Ob Reservoir....
From the July 17th, 2012 Los
Angeles Times:
According to certain interpretations of the
ancient Mayan calendar, the world is supposed to end one hundred and
eighty-four days from now-- and our soon-to-be-former chief executive is
probably wishing it already had. Thanks in some part to his early missteps on
the economy and his subsequent inability to deal effectively with the
challenges posed to our country’s foreign policy by the current civil war over
in Russia, President Obama owns the dubious distinction of being the first
commander-in-chief since Lyndon Johnson not to even get his own party’s
nomination for a second term in the White House...
To Be Continued
