Part 22

From the September 29^th, 2012 Chicago Tribune:

BARANOVSKY TELLS SCOTLAND YARD "I’M INNOCENT"

Moscow businessman denies any connections to FSS or Solidarity Summit bombing

From the September 30^th, 2012 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

The U.S. is about to experience its own version of the Solidarity Summit. In an e-mail sent to ABC News’ Moscow bureau this afternoon the chief organizer for the original summit, held in London back in August, confirmed most of the London event’s participants will be coming to San Francisco in mid-December to neet with American intellectuals and political activists for what is already being called Solidarity Summit II....

From a report posted at ABCNews.com on October 2^nd, 2012:

DEVELOPING STORY-- Fighting underway just outside Vyshinsky Volochak

From the October 3^rd, 2012 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

Andrei Baranovsky, the fifty-two-year-old Moscow business executive who is accused of being the chief liaison between the perpetrators of the Solidarity Summit bombing and Russia’s FSS counterintelligence service, is scheduled to be officially indicted tomorrow on terrorism and espionage charges....

From the October 4^th, 2012 Washington Post:

RUSSIAN REBELS ASSERT THEY’RE IN CONTROL AT VYSHINSKY

Kremlin disputes NRPM claims, insists government forces are maintaining

their hold on embattled city

From the October 6^th, 2012 broadcast of Good Morning America:

With just over a month to go before Election Day, the final leg of the 2012 presidential race may hinge in part on how successful the GOP is in its ongoing effort to tie Democratic candidate Charles Schumer to the Obama Administration’s heavily criticized policies concerning the Russian civil war...

From the October 7^th, 2012 edition of The Australian:

THREE BRITISH TOURISTS ATTACKED IN ST. PETERSBURG

Assault thought to be politically motivated; one victim says attackers

yelled ‘This is for Baranovsky’

From the October 9^th, 2012 broadcast of Nine News:

A cell phone camera video uploaded to YouTube this morning sheds disturbing new light on the attack made two days ago on three British tourists in St. Petersburg, Russia. The video, filmed by a correspondent for a Swedish online foreign affairs magazine, shows a crowd of bystanders apparently cheering on the attackers....

From the October 10^th, 2012 New York Times:

ANDREI BARANOVSKY’S FAMILY CONDEMNS ST. PETERSBURG ATTACKERS

Wife of indicted Russian businessman offers sympathies to

British tourists victimized in assault

From the October 11^th, 2012 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

Three Su-25 attack jets were shot down over Vyshinsky Volochak earlier today as Russian rebel troops began attacking the last government defensive positions near that city....

From the October 13^th, 2012 New York Post:

FOR PETE’S SAKE, I DIDN’T DO IT

Main defendant in St. Petersburg attack case says he’s been framed by Kremlin

From the October 14^th, 2012 broadcast of BBC World News:

A Swiss TV news station is reporting Russian rebel troops have captured

the last surviving government strongpoint in Vyshinsky Volochak....

From a story posted to MSNBC.com that same day:

BREAKING NEWS—NOVOSTI PRESS AGENCY CONFIRMS VYSHINSKY

IN RUSSIAN REBEL HANDS

Excerpt from the book Dragon Hunting: The 2013 Siberian Border Crisis, copyright 2068 Stackpole Books:

The new President of the United States took office amid steadily deteriorating relations between Russia and China. The beleaguered Medvedev government in Moscow accused Beijing of furnishing the NRPM insurgents with arms and funding in an attempt to destabilize Russia’s Siberian frontier; the Chinese counter-charged that the Kremlin was using NRPM activity in Siberia as an excuse to bulk up Russian military strength in the Far East in advance of a pre-emptive attack on China. The 2011 Russian-Kazakh border conflict, and China’s threats to break ties with Russia at the  height of that conflict, had revived old animosities between the two countries and created new ones; the incoming administration in the White House was all too aware of the dire international consequences such animosities could have if they weren’t kept in check...

From the October 16th, 2012 Daily Mail:

PM CALLS STATE OF RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS "GRIM"

From the October 18^th, 2012 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

The government of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev is drawing heavy political fire at home for its alleged mismanagement of the government army’s recent battles with NRPM insurgents at Vyshinsky and overseas for what one U.S. diplomat describes as "a dangerously aggressive new stance" in its relations with China...

From the October 19^th, 2012 Montreal Gazette:

DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN ST. PETERSBURG ASSAULT CASE WOUNDED IN SNIPER ATTACK

Was preparing to present evidence defendants had been framed, friend tells Moscow newspaper

 

From the October 21^st, 2012 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

Amnesty International says it has evidence which backs the claims of the defense attorney in the St. Petersburg assault trial that the defendants in the case have been framed by the Kremlin....

From a story posted at MSNBC.com on October 23^rd, 2012:

BREAKING NEWS--Reuters dispatch out of Tokyo says mutiny happening on Russian Pacific fleet missile cruiser

From a CBS News special report that same day:

A Pentagon spokesman has confirmed within the past half-hour that President Obama has ordered U.S. Navy ships and installations in the Pacific region placed on DefCon 4 in response to the crisis that has been unfolding for the past few hours aboard the Russian guided missile cruiser Groznyy....

From the October 25^th, 2012 Sydney Morning Herald:

From the October 26^th, 2012 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

Intelligence sources at the Ministry of National Defense in Ottawa, speaking on condition of anonymity, have confirmed that the mutiny on board the Russian naval guided missile cruiser Groznyy which took place three days ago appears to be tied to the ongoing civil war in Russia....

From the October 27^th, 2012 broadcast of Good Morning America:

The Russian embassy in Washington is refusing to either confirm or dispute an Agence France-Presse report that government special forces teams have been dispatched to the Pacific to try and retake the guided missile warship Groznyy from NRPM-backed mutineers....

From the October 28^th, 2012 of Nine News Morning Hour:

The Russian missile cruiser Groznyy is back in government hands this morning after Spetsnaz commandos stormed the hijacked warship late last night and killed or captured all but one of the mutineers in a short but intense firefight. In a related story, there are allegations from the Russian foreign ministry that the Chinese MSS counterintelligence service may have assisted the NRPM rebel alliance in plotting the original mutiny aboard Groznyy five days ago...

To Be Continued