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Ask 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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