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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Part 29: The Third Russian Revolution
by Chris Oakley


From the August 1st, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

Twelve people are confirmed dead at this hour as the Canadian embassy in Moscow remains under siege following three straight days of anti-Canadian riots...

From a story posted at the CBC News home page on August 2nd, 2013:

DEVELOPING--Department of Foreign Affairs expels Russian ambassador from Ottawa

From the August 6th, 2013 broadcast of Good Morning America:

As Russian-Canadian diplomatic relations teeter on the verge of collapse and Canada’s ambassador in Moscow prepares to go home, the U.S. State Department has ordered a precautionary evacuation of some American diplomatic personnel from Russia and offered to expedite the processing of exit visas for American tourists still
on Russian soil...

From the August 10th, 2013 Miami Herald:

ARGENTINA’S EMBASSY IN RUSSIA TO MOVE TO NOVOSIBIRSK

Medvedev’s ambassador in Buenos Aires files sharp protest

From the August 16th, 2013 broadcast of European Journal:

Austria today became the latest European nation to recognize the NRPM as Russia’s legitimate government....

From the August 23rd, 2013 Boston Globe:

MEDVEDEV DECLINES COMMENT ON SIBERIAN AIRBASE MUTINY RUMORS

From the August 24th, 2013 Montreal Gazette:

RUSSIA EXPELS 3 MORE CANADIAN EMBASSY STAFF FROM MOSCOW

From the August 27th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

The list of countries recognizing the NRPM as Russia’s legitimate government now stands at twenty-three with the announcement that Morocco will shortly relocate its
embassy from Moscow to Novosibirsk. In a related story, the Kremlin has given all remaining Canadian diplomats on Russian soil until midnight Moscow time August 31st to evacuate the country, after which date they will be subject to summary arrest for espionage....

From the September 3rd, 2013 Guardian:

RUSSIAN REBELS CLAIM FIGHTER UNIT HAS DEFECTED TO THEIR SIDE

Could spell potentially damaging blow to Kremlin’s air power if confirmed

From the September 9th, 2013 broadcast of Nine News:

The former Canadian ambassador to Russia today told Channel 9’s Ottawacorrespondent that in his view the Medvedev regime has less than eighteen months left before it collapses under all the blows it has taken in the past three and a half years at the hands of the NRPM rebel army....

From the September 13th, 2013 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

Former Vice-President Joe Biden told CNN last night that he believes the coming year will mark the decisive point in the ongoing civil war between the government
of  Russian president Dmitri Medvedev and the NRPM rebel forces. According to Biden, if the rebels can gain one or two significant victories against Russian regulartroops during that time, it will push the Medvedev regime to the brink of collapse...

From the September 21st, 2013 Washington Post:

CIA REPORTS POSSIBLE DEFECTION OF 2ND MiG SQUADRON TO REBEL FORCES

From the September 25th, 2013 Irish Examiner:

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE’S TOP FIGHTER GENERAL SACKED

From a bulletin posted at ESPN.com on October 3rd, 2013:

DEVELOPING STORY--General manager of KHL’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl arrested on charges of funneling money to Russian rebels

From the October 6th, 2013 Sydney Morning Herald:

Russian Government Armored Convoy Ambushed Near Kostroma

From the October 14th, 2013 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

The director of Russia’s fabled Bolshoi Ballet was found dead last night in what authorities are calling a suicide. At the time of his death, the director was facing investigation on suspicion of aiding the NRPM rebellion against the government of longtime Russian president Dmitri Medvedev....

From the October 15th, 2013 Boston Herald:

NYET SO FAST
Friend of deceased Bolshoi director disputes Moscow authorities’ suicide theory

From the October 21st, 2013 broadcast of ABC World News:

The widow of the late director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet has hired a noted London forensics expert to disprove the Kremlin’s claims that her husband’s death was a suicide....

From the October 27th, 2013 Daily Mail:

RUSSIAN INSURGENTS OCCUPY OKTYABRSKY
Dissident elements of regular army thought to have assisted in takeover

From the November 3rd, 2013 Washington Post:

THOUSANDS MARCH IN RED SQUARE TO DEMAND KREMLIN MAKE PEACE
WITH RUSSIAN REBELS

BOLSHOI DIRECTOR’S WIDOW: “WE HAVE PROOF HE WAS MURDERED”

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

Spokesmen for the NRPM rebel government in Novosibirsk have confirmed that a major firefight is underway near Oktyabrsky at this hour as troops loyal to the Medvedev regime in Moscow attempt to retake the city from insurgent forces....

From the November 10th, 2013 broadcast of BBC World News:

Al Jazeera is reporting tonight that Russian government forces are losing their fight to retake Oktyabrsky from the NRPM...

From the book Oktyabrsky: The Beginning Of The End, copyright 2037
Harvard University Press:

The Battle of Oktyabrsky marked the first step in the Medvedev government’s final irreversible slide towards total defeat. Once the rebel forces had beaten back the regular army’s last attempt to retake the city from NRPM control, the Kremlin’s hopes for turning the tide of the civil war back in its favor were all but dead. From the time the Battle of Oktyabrsky ended until NRPM troops overran Moscow at war’s end in June of 2015, the Medvedev regime was completely on the defensive...

From the November 21st, 2013 Washington Post:

St. Petersburg mayor resigns suddenly

Tells Russian TV he can no longer support Medvedev’s civil war policies

From the November 24th, 2013 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

The relocation of Bosnia’s embassy in Russia to the rebel headquarters city of Novosibirsk leaves Serbia, Great Britain, and the Vatican Free State as the only European governments left still maintaining diplomatic missions in Moscow...

From a story posted at MSNBC.com on December 13th, 2013:

BREAKING NEWS--Foreign Secretary’s office confirms British embassy in Russia to relocate to Novosibirsk immediately

From a panel discussion on Meet The Press the following Sunday:

MODERATOR--What would you say the British government’s decision to close its embassy in Moscow means for the future of the Medvedev government?

GUEST #1--There’s no doubting it’s a major game-changer. Britain has long been one of the heavyweights of the European community; what it does, or refrains from doing, can shape the course of events not just in Europe but all around the world. The United States will find itself under increasing pressure in the coming weeks to follow Whitehall’s
lead.....

GUEST #2--The thing is, President Huckabee’s administration is sharply divided on this point. Some of them want to do what the British did and move the U.S. embassy to Novosibirsk, others want to keep the embassy in Moscow, and one or two are on the fence waiting to see what China will do. If China pulls its embassy out of Moscow and moves it to Novosibirsk, that’s pretty much the ball game as far as Medvedev isconcerned...

From the December 28th, 2013 New York Times:

38 DEAD, 212 INJURED IN ANTI-MEDVEDEV RIOTS IN MOSCOW

State Department Orders Security Lockdown At U.S. Embassy

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

The new year began on a somber note for the embattled government of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev as his prosecutor general, his financial minister, and his chief of intelligence all tendered their resignations...

From the January 5th, 2013 Daily Mail:

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE JETS BOMB REBEL POSITIONS NEAR BRYANSK IN ADVANCE OF EXPECTEDMAJOR BATTLE

To Be Continued

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