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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 20
From the July 19th, 2012 broadcast of
BBC World News:
New details are emerging tonight in the recent
bomb attack on the Russian embassy in Madrid. The federal prosecutor general’s
office in Moscow has issued a statement saying that evidence has been
uncovered suggesting the pro-Kazakh extremists suspected of carrying out the
bombing may have had material and intelligence help from members of the Evgeny
Petrov Brigade...
From the July 21st, 2012 Sydney
Morning Herald:
SIX RUSSIAN INSURGENTS KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH
GOVERNMENT TROOPS NEAR GORKY
From the July 22nd, 2012 Wall
Street Journal:
RUSSIA’S
LARGEST RETAIL CHAIN GOES BANKRUPT
Economic Problems Stemming From Civil War Cited
As Crucial Factor
In Moscow-Based Store Franchise’s Collapse
From the July 24th, 2012
Washington Times:
FORMER V.P. CHENEY TO HOST SEMINAR IN DALLAS ON
FOREIGN
POLICY IN POST-OBAMA ERA
Russian Civil War Expected To Be Main Topic
From the July 27th, 2012 broadcast of
BBC World News:
Thirteen high-ranking Russian army officers have
been cashiered from their posts as the defence ministry in Moscow continues
its inquiries into a suspected mutiny plot with the Spetsnaz commando
corps....
From the July 28th, 2012 New York
Post:
RAHM TOUGH ON MOSCOW
Former White House chief of staff criticizes
Medvedev’s handling of
internal dissent, blames Russian prez for civil
war
From the July 31st, 2012 San
Francisco Examiner:
RUSSIAN BORDER UNIT COMMANDER RECALLED UNDER
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES
Accused of being Kazakh sympathizer but has not
been court-martialed
From the August 2nd, 2012 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
Spanish authorities are announcing tonight that
two Russian nationals identified by Interpol as members of the Evgeny Petrov
Brigade are in police custody in connection with last month’s bombing at the
Russian embassy in Madrid. These two arrests, according to Madrid police
officials, provide further evidence of a link between the Petrov Brigade and
the pro-Kazakh extremists who carried out the bomb attack...
From the August 4th, 2012 broadcast of
European Journal:
Valery Kazrenko, the former Russian air force
officer whose defection to the NRPM rebellion back in February stunned the
entire world, has released a new videotape reiterating his call for his fellow
countrymen to join the insurgency. In a related story Russian defense ministry
investigators say they have found new evidence suggesting Lt. Kazrenko was
planning his defection for weeks, if not months, prior to his
disappearance....
From the August 5th, 2012 New York
Times:
RUSSIAN NAVAL CAPTAIN SHOT IN APPARENT MUTINY
ATTEMPT
Incident casts further doubt on loyal of
Medvedev’s military personnel as civil war continues to escalate
From the August 6th, 2012 broadcast of
Good Morning America:
As the world prepares to mark the sixty-seventh
anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima, the State Department is
expressing concerns about the security of missile installations inside Russia
in view of the ongoing civil war there, which is currently in its third
year...
From the August 7th, 2012 Daily
Mail:
PARATROOPS CLASH WITH RUSSIAN INSURGENTS NEAR
CHUKCHI SEA COAST
From the August 10th, 2012 broadcast of
Nine News:
The Russian defense ministry is refusing to
confirm or deny reports that the chief of staff for its Pacific regional army
command has resigned his post after being charged with gross incompetence in
the wake of the disastrous airborne assault on NRPM positions near the
Chukchi Sea coast three days earlier. In related news, two high-ranking
Spetsnaz officers have been arrested as the Kremlin steps up its inquiries
into the alleged mutiny conspiracy that led to the recent suicide of the
commander-in-chief of the elite commando organization...
From the August 11th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
President Obama may not be the only head of state
whose political career winds up becoming a casualty of the Russian civil war;
a just-released Sky TV online poll says that if Britain were to hold its next
election for prime minister today 67 percent of those surveyed stated they
would vote against incumbent prime minister David Cameron, and out of that
number at least 82 percent cite his handling of the conflict between the
Medvedev government and the NRPM insurgency as a major factor in their
decision not to support him....
From the August 14th, 2012
Wellington Daily Mail:
GEORG KRIEGER INJURED IN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Jailed former exchange student said to be
despondent over his continuing incarceration
From the August 15th, 2012 broadcast of
Nine News:
The second-highest ranking admiral in the Russian
navy is facing family scandal after it was revealed by a popular French-based
online gossip site that his oldest grandson is dating a suspected NRPM
sympathizer...
From the August 17th, 2012 broadcast of
The CBS Evening News:
An Egyptian journalist who survived his own
country’s political crisis during the collapse of the Mubarak regime last
February is fighting for his life tonight after being wounded by shrapnel
while covering a Russian regular army artillery barrage on NRPM positions in
East Siberia....
From the August 18th, 2012
Washington Post:
RUSSIAN AND KAZAKH PEACE ACTIVISTS SET TO HOLD
"SOLIDARITY
SUMMIT" IN LONDON TOMORROW
From the August 20th, 2012 Boston
Globe:
THREE ANTI-KAZAKH AGITATORS ARRESTED IN LONDON AS
SOLIDARITY SUMMIT CONTINUES
From the August 21st, 2012 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
University students in Ottawa, Toronto, and
Hamilton are holding their own "solidarity summit" next week to show support
for the gathering of Russian and Kazakh peace activists in London which has
been going on for three days now...
From a story posted at CNN.com on August 23rd,
2012:
BREAKING NEWS--SIX DEAD IN BOMBING AT SOLIDARITY
SUMMIT IN LONDON
From BBC World News that same day:
There are now eighteen confirmed fatalities in
the car bombing at London’s "Solidarity Summit" between Russian and Kazakh
peace activists....
From the August 24th, 2012 New
York Post:
WHAT THE HACK?!!
"Solidarity Summit" organizers say their website
came under cyber-attack just minutes before bombing
From the August 26th, 2012
Washington Times:
WAS RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN SOLIDARITY
SUMMIT BOMBING?
Scotland Yard investigating alleged ties between
bombers, Federal Security Service
From the August 27th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Organizers of the "Solidarity Summit" in London
say they will proceed with the final day of the event as scheduled despite the
carnage inflicted in the car bombing three days ago and threats of a new
attack on the gathering of Russian and Kazakh peace activists....
To Be Continued

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