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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You:

The Third Russian Revolution

 

By Chris Oakley

Part 9

 

 

 

From the March 1st, 2011 Daily Mail:

KREMLIN DEEMS COL. KAZANOV’S DEATH A SUICIDE

Disputes Allegations Accused NRPM Sympathizer Was Murdered By FSB

 

From the March 2nd, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

Two Russian army choppers have been shot down over Lake Baikal by what were apparently shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. According to official Russian defense ministry sources, the helicopters were engaged in an attack on suspected NRPM training camps in the Baikal region...

 

From the March 4th, 2011 Montreal Gazette:

MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SKEPTICAL OF MOSCOW SUICIDE CLAIMS

IN KAZANOV CASE

 

From the March 7th, 2011 San Francisco Examiner:

U.N. PANEL ON KHABAROVSK MASSACRES ACCUSES MEDVEDEV OF INTERFERING

WITH ITS INQUIRIES

Three Investigators Barred From Entering Russia

 

From the March 9th, 2011 broadcast of Today:

A suspected NRPM outpost in the Lake Baikal region has been destroyed in a pre-dawn bombing raid by Russian air force jets....

 

From the March 10th, 2011 New York Times:

DUMA IN SPECIAL SESSION TO DEBATE CREATION OF INDEPENDENT

COMMISSION TO PROBE CHELYABINSK P.O.W. ABUSE CHARGES

 

From the March 12th, 2011 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

After two days of intense debate, the Russian Duma has formally approved a bill establishing an independent commission to inquire into the suspected abuse of captured NRPM guerrillas being detained in Russian government prisons....

 

From the March 13th, 2011 Moscow News:

European Union Criticizes Government’s Refusal To Co-operate With U.N. Probe

Of Khabarovsk Massacres

 

From the March 15th, 2011 New York Daily News:

ASTRA-CON JOB?

White House questioning official Kremlin account of Astrakhan firefight

 

From a broadcast of NBC Nightly News that same day:

The Kremlin is reacting with outrage tonight to suggestions from the White House that the official Russian government account of yesterday’s firefight between regular army units and NRPM guerrillas near the city of Astrakhan may not have been fully accurate....

 

From the March 17th, 2011 Washington Post:

MEDVEDEV DEFENDS VERACITY OF OFFICIAL KREMLIN REPORT ON

ASTRAKHAN FIREFIGHT

Accuses Obama Administration Of Trying To Embarrass Moscow;

Threatens To Pull Out Of Next Month’s European Security Summit

 

From a story posted at BBC.co.uk on March 18th, 2011:

In what may prove to be the bloodiest battle yet of the nearly ten-month-old Russian civil war between the Medvedev government and the NRPM rebel forces, two full divisions of government troops are engaging what is reported be a rather sizable insurgent force near the West Siberian city of Omsk...

 

From the March 20th, 2011 Daily Mail:

RAIN, COLD SAID TO BE HAMPERING COMBAT OPERATIONS ON BOTH SIDES

AT OMSK

 

From the March 22nd, 2011 broadcast of Nine News:

There is growing concern tonight at the Russian army general staff headquarters in Moscow over the stalemate in government forces’ four-day-old battle to eliminate a pocket of NRPM guerillas near the city of Omsk....

 

From the March 25th, 2011 broadcast of Good Morning America:

The NRPM is claiming victory this morning in its week-long fight with Russian regular army units for control of the Siberian city of Omsk...

 

From the 2026 BBC documentary The Third Russian Revolution FifteenYears On:

In terms of importance, the fight for Omsk was unquestionably one of the NRPM insurgency’s most critical operations during the five years that it fought to topple the Medvedev regime. Had Russian government forces won, it might have spelled the end of the uprising-- it certainly would have set the insurgents’ cause back months or even years...

 

From the March 29th, 2011 Washington Post:

MOSCOW REPEATS THREAT TO PULL OUT OF VIENNA SECURITY SUMMIT

Obama accused by Kremlin of trying to stir up anti-Russian sentiment among EU member nations

 

From the March 31st, 2011 San Francisco Examiner:

MEDVEDEV RELENTS, SAYS HE WILL ATTEND VIENNA SUMMIT

NRPM sympathizers vow massive protest of Russian president’s visit

 

From the April 3rd, 2011 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

When current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev arrives in Vienna this coming Thursday for the start of a European security and anti-terrorism summit at which President Obama is also expected to be in attendance, he will be accompanied by one of the largest security details ever assigned to a Russian leader for an overseas visit. The move comes after a threat against Medvedev’s life was e-mailed to Viennese police officials and to the Russian embassy in Vienna late last night....

 

From the April 7th, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

Today Austrian sympathizers with the NRPM rebellion in Russian made good on their promise to mount a huge protest of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev’s presence in Vienna for this week’s European security summit. Even as Medvedev’s personal plane was touching down at Vienna International Airport, thousands of demonstrators marched near the Russian embassy in the Austrian capital’s Landstrasse district waving banners and chanting pro-NRPM slogans....

 

From a story posted at Foxnews.com on April 10th, 2011:

BREAKING NEWS--A.P. REPORTS POSSIBLE EXPLOSION OR FIRE AT RUSSIAN

EMBASSY IN VIENNA

 

To Be Continued

 

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