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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Part 27: The Third Russian Revolution
by Chris Oakley


From the March 6th, 2013 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

Sources at the Ministry of Defence in London are closely monitoring the latest developments in the firefight between Russian government forces and rebel troops at Rubtsovsk...

From the March 7th, 2013 Boston Globe:

RUSSIAN REBELS SEIZE ATTACK HELICOPTER

From the March 8th, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

Reuters is saying that an Mi-35 attack helicopter captured by Russian rebel forces two days ago has been used in an apparent hit-and-run attack on a government army supply convoy north of Rubtsovsk...

From the book Jugular: The Role Of Helicopters In The Russian Civil
War, copyright 2037 University of California at Irvine Press:

The first capture of a Russian army attack helicopter was not only a major propaganda coup for the NRPM insurgent forces, it also turned out to be a sizable military achievement for them. Up until then one of the most serious obstacles the insurgents had faced in opposing the Medvedev government’s army was the government pilots’ superior training in the operational use of armed copters and coping with the countermeasures used to defend against them. But now the tables had started to turn....

From a memo by CIA director David Petraeus to President Huckabee dated March 12th, 2013:

Latest intel from Russia suggests the NRPM may be getting assistance from disaffected regular army personnel in the seizure of attack helicopters....

From the March 13th, 2013 broadcast of CBC News The National:

Russian rebel forces claim tonight that they have eliminated the last pockets of government army resistance near Rubtsovsk...

From the March 14th, 2013 Daily Mail:

P.M. REACTS TO NEWS OF REBEL VICTORY AT RUBTSOVSK

From the March 15th, 2013 broadcast of Good Morning America:

Two Russian senior army officers have been dismissed in the wake of the fall of the town of Rubtsovsk to NRPM insurgent forces...In a related story, a Moscow political watchdog group is suing the Kremlin to force the release of papers which the group’s directors say indicate
desertion rates in every sector of the Russian regular armed forces haveclimbed to an all-time high...

From the March 16th, 2013 New York Daily News:

CHOP(PER) SHOP

Russian intelligence agents looking into rumors of NRPM helicopter buys on the black market

From the March 18th, 2013 Sydney Morning Herald:

35 REGULARS, 17 GUERRILLAS DEAD IN SIBERIAN AMBUSH

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PLANS TO COUNTERSUE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OVER DESERTION RATE ESTIMATES

From the March 19th, 2013 Washington Post:

STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMS HUCKABEE-CAMERON SUMMIT SET FOR NEXT WEEK IN MANCHESTER

 Russian Civil War Among Major Topics To Be Addressed At Three-Day Meeting

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

For the first time since the Russian civil war began in 2010 Moscow came under attack today as NRPM insurgents fired Katyusha rockets at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry...

From the March 23rd, 2013 Giornale di Sicilia(Italy):

MEDVEDEV, IN TV SPEECH, VOWS REVENGE FOR ROCKET ATTACK

From the March 25th, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

Seeking to make good on his promise of two days ago to avenge the Katyusha rocket attack on the Interior Ministry in Moscow, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has unleashed a wave of punishing air strikes against the camps from which the attack is suspected to have been launched. A spokesman for the Russian defense ministry said the air strikes have so far killed 28 insurgents....

From the March 26th, 2013 New York Times:

STATE DEPARTMENT WARNS AMERICANS AGAINST TRAVELING TO RUSSIA

Advisory Declares Country “Totally Unsafe” For Tourists

From the March 27th, 2013 Guardian:

British Embassy In Moscow Evacuated After Bomb Threat

From the March 29th, 2013 London Times:

KREMLIN STUNNED BY MURDER OF EX-FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV

Promises Full Inquiry Into Killing

From the March 31st, 2013 San Francisco Examiner:

RUSSIAN REGULAR TROOPS BEGIN ASSAULT TO RETAKE RUBTSOVSK

From the April 1st, 2013 Jerusalem Post:

Israeli Embassy In Moscow Sees 55 Percent Spike In Asylum Requests From Russian Jews

From the April 2nd, 2013 Le Soir(France):

RUSSIAN REBELS SAY THEY STILL HOLD RUBTSOVSK

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ORDERS EVACUATION OF ST. PETERSBURG CONSULAR STAFF

From the April 4th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

NRPM supporters in the Russian Far East city of Magadan have quashed an attempt by militias loyal to the Medvedev government to unseat the city’s present rebel-backed administrative council…

From a story posted at ESPN.com on April 7th, 2013:

The National Hockey League is expected to announce tomorrow that it will suspend all business transactions with Russia’s KHL league until further notice. Sources close to the NHL commissioner’s office have told ESPN the decision has been made in response to ongoing developments in the Russian civil war, which is now approaching its fourth year...

From the April 8th, 2013 broadcast of Good Morning America:

Russian rebel helicopters are said to be attacking government troop positions south of Kuznetsk at this hour....In a related story, two Russian air force fighter pilots alleged to have ties to an NRPM sympathizer are facing court-martial on charges of mutiny and insubordination...

From the April 9th, 2013 New York Times:

RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DECLINES COMMENT ON UNMANNED DRONE HACKING RUMORS

NRPM Claims It Has Cracked Government Army UAV Security Codes

From the April 10th, 2013 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

Speaking to reporters outside the Iraqi embassy in Washington last night following a reception to mark the tenth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Saddam Hussein, President Mike Huckabee denied allegations by the Russian foreign ministry that the perpetrators of the alleged hacking into security programs for Russian regular army UAV drones had technical aid from the Central Intelligence Agency....

From the April 12th, 2013 Guardian:

THE FALL OF KUZNETSK: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR RUSSIA?

From the April 15th, 2013 Boston Globe:

MOSCOW POLICE MAKE THREE ARRESTS IN LAVROV ASSASSINATION

From the April 17th, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

The U.S. State Department today filed an angry protest with the Russian embassy in Washington over the Medvedev government’s expulsion of three senior American diplomats from Moscow in retaliation for the deportation two days ago of Russia’s chief economic attaché to the United States....

From a story posted at CNN.com on April 19th, 2013:

DEVELOPING STORY--Verdict reached in Baranovsky trial

From an ABC News special report that same day:

A stunning end to the Andrei Baranovsky trial as the Russian business tycoon is acquitted of all charges. The 52-year-old Moscow electronics mogul had been accused of having ties to the Federal Security Service counterintelligence agency and of colluding with the perpetrators of last August’s Solidarity Summit bombing in London....

From a 60 Minutes report broadcast on Easter Sunday 2013:

Nearly four years after the Russian civil war began, the Medvedev government’s political position both at home and abroad is looking shakier now than it has at any other time since he first assumed office. As this next report illustrates, the question for a growing segment of the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence communities is not if  Medvedev’s administration will collapse, but when

To Be Continued

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