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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Part 25: The Third Russian Revolution
by Chris Oakley


From the January 5th, 2013 Washington Post:

ACCUSED PETROV SYMPATHIZER TO BE INDICTED TOMORROW IN CONNECTION WITH MOSCOW POLICE MUTINY

From the January 7th, 2013 Daily Mail::

MARTIAL LAW RESTRICTIONS IN MOSCOW TIGHTENED

From story posted at ABCNews.com on January 10th, 2013:

BREAKING NEWS--AP reports accused Moscow police mutiny leader found dead in his cell at Lefortovo Prison

From the January 12th, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

President-elect Mike Huckabee has expressed skepticism about the Kremlin’s official account of the death of Slava Chusenko, the patrolman accused of inciting the recently suppressed Moscow police mutiny. In a brief statement released yesterday, the Russian federal prosecutor general’s office asserted that the 39-year-old Chusenko committed suicide....

From the January 15th, 2013 Washington Times:

WAS SLAVA CHUSENKO ASSASSINATED?

From the January 16th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

University of London students are preparing to hold a rally tomorrow near the Russian embassy in London to demand a third-party inquiry into the sudden and highly mysterious death six days ago of accused Moscow police mutiny ringleader Slava Chusenko...

From the January 18th, 2013 broadcast of CBS’ The Early Show:

In his last public appearance before Sunday’s inauguration, incoming President Mike Huckabee told a Rotary Club gathering in Landover, Maryland he fully endorses an independent investigation of the sudden death eight days ago of accused Russian police mutineer Slava Chusenko and intends to use U.S. diplomatic pressure on Moscow to push for such an inquiry...

From BBC News’ coverage of the U.S. Presidential inauguration on January 20th, 2013:

While there are few details available as to the substance of President Huckabee’s inaugural address, White House sources have confirmed that it will touch at length on the continuing civil war in Russia and changes in U.S. policy towards Moscow...

From the January 21st, 2013 New York Times:

KREMLIN BLASTS HUCKABEE INAUGURATION SPEECH

Accuses New U.S. President Of Trying To Incite Anti-Russian Hatred Among Americans

From the January 23rd, 2013 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

Hundreds gathered in Moscow’s Red Square earlier today to denounce President Huckabee’s newly instituted hard-line policy stance on Russia. The rally, believed to have been at least partially organized by supporters of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev,  denounced the new president as a “paranoid warmonger” whose actions and ideology threaten to revive the animosity between Washington and Moscow that existed at the height of the Cold War....

From the January 24th, 2013 Washington Post:

VP ROMNEY CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PROBE OF CHUSENKO DEATH

Says “More Than 50 Percent Chance” Accused Petrov Brigade Sympathizer Was Murdered

From the January 26th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on rumors that the controversy over the mysterious death of accused Petrov Brigade sympathizer Slava Chusenko was a primary factor in the palace’s decision to cancel what would have been the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first visit to Russia. However, palace security advisors have acknowledged that the current situation in the civil war between the Medvedev government and the NPRM guerrilla army has given the royal family pause...

From the January 28th, 2013 Montreal Gazette:

CANADIAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW REPORTS 45% INCREASE IN POLITICAL ASYLUM APPLICATIONS

From the January 30th, 2013 broadcast of Nine News Morning Hour:

Despite mounting worldwide demands for a third-party inquiry into allegations of murder in the death of Slava Chusenko, the Russian government is continuing to stand by its official verdict that the accused Moscow police mutiny ringleader’s demise was a suicide....

From the January 31st, 2013 Los Angeles Times:

HUCKABEE GARNERS 85% APPROVAL RATING IN FIRST NATIONWIDE POST-INAUGURATION GALLUP POLL

From the February 1st, 2013 Guardian:

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT REPORTED MISSING OVER DRUZHINA

May have been shot down by rebel gunfire

From the February 3rd, 2013 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

Britain’s Sky News TV is confirming tonight that a Russian government aircraft which disappeared in the vicinity of the town of Druzhina two days ago was in fact downed by anti-aircraft fire from NRPM defensive positions just outside the town’s northwest quarter....

From the February 4th, 2013 San Francisco Examiner:

RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES KILL 21 INSURGENTS NEAR DRUZHINA

From the February 5th, 2013 Boston Globe:

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ALLEGE CIVILIANS KILLED IN BOMBING RAID ON NRPM UNITS NEAR DRUZHINA

From the February 7th, 2013 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

In his first televised interview since leaving the White House last month, former President of the United States Barack Obama told CNN he had what he called “serious reservations” about the current state of U.S.-Russian relations but stopped short of directly criticizing new president Mike Huckabee’s  current foreign policy in regard to Russia and the civil war which has been raging there for nearly three years.

This stands in marked contrast to comments made two days ago by his ex-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, who has called Huckabee’s hard-line stance “a recipe for total disaster”….

From a story posted at MSNBC.com on February 10th, 2013:

DEVELOPING STORY--Fighting reported between Russian regular troops and NRPM guerrillas east of St. Petersburg

To Be Continued

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