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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 21
From the August 28th, 2012 New
York Times:
SOLIDARITY SUMMIT IN LONDON TO CONCLUDE AMID
HEIGHTENED POLICE PRESENCE
From the August 29th, 2012
Washington Post:
MEDVEDEV DENIES F.S.S. INVOLVEMENT IN SOLIDARITY
SUMMIT BLAST
Kazakh embassy in London demands UN probe into
attack
From the August 31st, 2012 broadcast of
BBC World News:
In a speech before the House of Commons this
afternoon, Prime Minister David Cameron said the British government would put
its full weight behind the inquiry into alleged ties between Russian
intelligence and the perpetrators of the Solidarity Summit bombing in London
ten days ago....
From the September 2nd, 2012 broadcast
of European Journal:
A ZDF cameraman who was covering the Solidarity
Summit for his network’s evening newscast at the time of the car bombing
nearly two weeks ago has died as a result of the injuries he sustained in the
blast. His death brings the total number of people killed in the attack to
fifty-seven and raises concerns throughout the European Union about the safety
of journalists covering the Russian-Kazakh crisis....
From the September 3rd, 2012 New
York Daily News:
ANGER AMONG PEACE ACTIVISTS AT LONDON BROIL
Russian and Kazakh organizers of Solidarity
Summit issue joint statement attacking Kremlin
From the September 5th, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald:
AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALANDER EMBASSIES IN MOSCOW
BOMBED;
25 CONFIRMED DEAD, 100 MISSING
Attacks thought to be retaliation by anti-Kazakh
extremists for recent pro-Kazakh student rallies in Sydney and Auckland
From the September 6th, 2012
Toronto Globe & Mail:
IS ANOTHER RUSSIAN-KAZAKH BORDER WAR JUST AROUND
THE CORNER?
From the September 8th, 2012 broadcast
of Good Morning America:
As America prepares to mark the eleven-year
anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, the U.S. State Department is
warning travelers to Russia to be on their guard against anti-Kazakh gangs who
have recently been attacking foreign tourists thought to be exhibiting
pro-Kazakh attitudes...
From the September 9th, 2012 Asahi
Shimbun:
FOREIGN MINISTER VOICES CONCERN ABOUT LATEST
EVENTS IN RUSSIAN-KAZAKH DISPUTE
Warns Cease-Fire Accord Which Ended Previous
Conflict Is In Danger Of Collapse
From the September 11th, 2012
Boston Globe:
RUSSIAN REGULAR TROOPS ENGAGING REBEL FORCES NEAR
TALAYA
Fighting also reported in Atka
From the September 13th, 2012 broadcast
of The CBS Evening News:
A Reuters report out of Vladivostok tonight
suggests Russian government army losses at Atka and Talaya may be heavier than
official Kremlin statements have so far indicated....
From a press release issued by the office of the
Vice-President of the United States dated September 16th, 2012:
The White House is continuing to monitor
developments concerning the recent engagement between Russian government
forces and rebel troops near Atka and Talaya, and the United States embassy in
Moscow has urged President Medvedev repeatedly to be more forthcoming with
details on the fighting in that area...
From an editorial in the Houston Post
dated September 18th, 2012:
There can only be two possible explanations for
the stark contrast between Medvedev’s official statements regarding the
battles between the NRPM and Russian government troops at Atka and Talaya:
either the Russian president has suffered a psychological breakdown that has
made him lose touch with reality, or he is deliberately attempting to conceal
the facts....
From the September 19th, 2012 broadcast
of BBC World News:
A Russian defector who has been given political
asylum in Canada has told defense and intelligence officials in Ottawa that
there is indeed a connection between the FSS and the Solidarity Summit
bombers....
From the September 20th, 2012 broadcast
of NBC Nightly News:
House Speaker John Boehner is pushing for the
White House to issue new sanctions against Russia in light of new evidence
suggesting there were indeed some connections between the FSS
counterintelligence agency and the conspirators who planned and carried out
last month’s Solidarity Summit bombing in London....
From the September 22nd, 2012 New
York Post:
FRENCH DRESSING (DOWN)
Sarkozy blasts Kremlin over Talaya casualty
figures, Solidarity Summit bombing
From the September 23rd, 2012 broadcast
of BBC Breakfast:
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev is taking
exception to remarks made by his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy yesterday
at a press conference in Paris. Medvedev said Sarkozy’s statements, which
assert that the Kremlin has been less than fully forthcoming in regard to the
body count of the recent clashes between government and rebel forces at Talaya
and Atka and suspected links by the Solidarity Summit bombing conspirators to
the FSS, were blatant anti-Russian propaganda meant to embarrass both his
country and his government. Many of Medvedev’s fellow countrymen seem to share
his outrage about the French president’s comments, if the demonstrations going
on right now outside the French embassy in Moscow is any indication....
From the September 25th, 2012 broadcast
of CBS Evening News:
The war of words between Moscow and Paris over
the Medvedev government’s official statements on the battle of Talaya and Atka
and last month’s Solidarity Summit bombing in London shows no signs of fading
away anytime soon. If anything, it may be heating up after some harsh comments
about Medvedev by an anonymous source at the French foreign ministry in
today’s edition of the Australian newspaper The Age...
From the September 28th, 2012 Los
Angeles Times:
SCOTLAND YARD CONFIRMS PROMINENT MOSCOW
BUSINESSMAN
ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH SOLIDARITY SUMMIT
BOMBING
Longtime oil executive suspected of being FSS
contact for bomb plot conspirators
From the broadcast of CBC News At Six
that same day:
Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in
Moscow’s Red Square at this hour to speak out in defense of Anatoly Baranovsky,
the 52-year-old businessman arrested in London earlier today on charges of
espionage and aiding and abetting terrorism in connection with the Solidarity
Summit bombing...
To Be Continued

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