From the February 11th, 2013 broadcast of CBS’ The Early Show:

A press spokesman for the Russian embassy in Washington has confirmed that Russian government troops are fighting NRPM insurgents east of St. Petersburg but has declined to give estimates on casualties or confirm rumors that Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has ordered an immediate full evacuation of all civilians from the historic city....

From the same day’s edition of the Washington Post:

RUSSIAN REBELS CLAIM MAJOR GAINS AGAINST GOVERNMENT FORCES EAST OF ST. PETERSBURG

From the February 12th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

Sources in Moscow are reporting at this hour that the fighting between Russian government troops and NRPM rebels east of St. Petersburg has reached a stalemate....

Excerpt from the book Operation Castor: The St. Petersburg CampaignAnd Its Effect On The Russian Civil War, copyright 2065 United States Naval Academy Press:

In strictly military terms the NRPM’s 2013 offensive to capture St.  Petersburg was a stalemate, because while the rebel forces failed in their initial attempt to gain control of the historic city, by the same token Russian government troops sustained casualties on a level the regular army hadn’t seen since the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended in 1989. In psychological terms, however, the campaign was a bitter setback for the Medvedev regime, whose assurances that rebel forces could never threaten government control of the city had been proven hollow....

From the February 15th, 2013 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

An NRPM spokesman has confirmed that the Russian rebel organization is pulling back its forces from the St. Petersburg area. However, that has not stopped critics of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev from demanding that he resign from office and make way for a new leader who will begin cease- fire negotiations with the rebel forces...

From the February 16th, 2013 broadcast of Nine News:

Two legislators with Russia’s Duma parliament had to be physically separated after getting into a fistfight over one of the legislators’ proposal to set up a board of inquiry to look into charges that the Russian regular army mishandled the deployment of its ground troops in the recent battle near St. Petersburg...

From the February 17th, 2013 Guardian:

RUSSIAN OFFICER ARRESTED ON MUTINY CHARGES AT SIBERIAN MISSILE SITE

Incident poses serious questions for security at Russia’s nuclear bases

From the February 19th, 2013 L’Osservatore Romano:

Today, His Holiness reiterated the church’s call for the Russian government and the NRPM rebel factions to make peace at the earliest possible opportunity, warning that the civil war which has been going in Russia for nearly four years could lead to that country’s physical and
spiritual destruction if it is allowed to continue much longer....

From the February 21st, 2013 Sydney Morning Herald:

RUSSIAN NAVAL CRUISER REPORTED MISSING IN SEA OF OKHOTSK

From an ABC News special report that same day:

A U.S. Navy spokesman has confirmed to ABC News that CINCPAC is putting some of its ships on alert in response to reports that a Russian Navy Pacific fleet guided missile cruiser has been hijacked by crew members sympathetic to the NRPM rebel organization. The ship was first reported missing eight hours ago after the Russian Pacific fleet’s headquarters in the city of Vladivostok received a garbled distress call indicating a mutiny had broken out on board....

From that evening’s edition of CBC News At Six:

The missing cruiser has been identified by Department of National Defence analysts as a Slava-class vessel with an estimated crew complement of 485...

From the February 22nd, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

The Russian navy’s chief of staff refuses comment on rumors that three submarines have been dispatched to sink the hijacked Slava-class cruiser Marshal Ustinov....

From a story posted at CBSNews.com on February 23rd, 2013:

BREAKING NEWS--CIA satellites detect massive explosion aboard cruiser Ustinov; cause of blast unclear

From a BBC News special bulletin that evening:

We are now receiving word from our Moscow bureau that the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, hijacked by suspected NRPM sympathizers nearly three days ago, has sustained a direct hit from what Ministry of Defence sources in London believe was a submarine-launched torpedo....

From the February 24th, 2013 Washington Post:

RUSSIAN NAVAL MINISTER CONFIRMS SUBS USED TO SINKHIJACKED CRUISER

From the broadcast of Good Morning America that same day:

The White House press office has announced that President Huckabee will address thenation at 1:00 PM Eastern time this afternoon concerning yesterday's sinking of the hijacked Russian missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov....

From the February 25th, 2013 Houston Post:

HUCKABEE  CRITICIZES “EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE” IN USTINOV SINKING

From the February 26th, 2013 broadcast of Nine News Morning Hour:

Six American diplomats have been expelled from Russia in the wake of President Huckabee’s statement yesterday criticizing the Medvedev government’s decision to use submarine-launched torpedoes to stop the hijacked missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov from reaching an NRPM-controlled port...

From the February 28th, 2013 Daily Mail:

CAMERON DEBRIEFED BY PRESIDENT HUCKABEE ON USTINOV INCIDENT

THREE MORE U.S. ENVOYS DEPORTED FROM MOSCOW

From the March 1st, 2013 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

Relations between Washington and Moscow are becoming more strained in the wake of President Mike Huckabee’s criticism of the Russian government’s handling of the Ustinov incident. A U.S. State Department spokesman confirmed this afternoon that three diplomats attached to the Russian consulate in New York have been asked to leave the United States...

From the March 2nd, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

A Russian anti-war activist was arrested in St. Petersburg late this afternoon while leading protests against the Medvedev government’s decision to award the country’s highest naval decoration to the captains of the three nuclear submarines which sank the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov on February 23rd….

From the March 4th, 2013 Washington Times:

THREE RUSSIAN NAVAL OFFICIALS FIRED, TWO OTHERS RESIGN AS USTINOV CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO GROW

From a story posted at the BBC News website on March 5th, 2013:

DEVELOPING STORY--Russian defence ministry confirms major firefight between government troops and rebel forces underway near town of Rubtsovsk

To Be Continued