Part 10

From a CBS News special report broadcast April 10^th, 2011:

It’s now been confirmed that there has in fact been a firebombing at the Russian embassy in Vienna. According to an eyewitness who filmed the first explosions on his cell phone camera, three masked figures threw what looked like Molotov cocktails over the embassy gates; one of those cocktails flew through an open window on the embassy’s first floor and exploded, setting off a fire that quickly spread to the second floor....

 

From the April 11^th, 2011 broadcast of Good Morning America:

As the European security and anti-terrorism summit in Vienna begins its second day, a group calling itself the Evgeny Petrov Brigade is taking credit for yesterday’s firebomb attack on the city’s Russian embassy. The attack is so far estimated to have killed at least twelve people and injured thirty-eight more...

From Wikipedia’s entry on the Evgeny Petrov Brigade:

The Evgeny Petrov Brigade(also known as the Congress for Russian Freedom) was a radical anti-Medvedev organization established in the summer of 2009 by self-exiled Russian nationals who had emigrated to central and western Europe in order to escape Russian president Dmitri Medvedev’s increasingly authoritarian government; after long-simmering political tensions between the Medvedev regime and the New Russian People’s Movement(NRPM) erupted into civil war in May of 2010, the Brigade began to shift away from the peaceful protest tactics it had favored in the past in favor of the more violent and confrontational methods advocated by the NRPM and its various offshoots. By January of 2011 the Brigade had been deemed a terrorist organization by the Russian interior ministry…

The Petrov Brigade got its main name from ex-Russian regular army soldier Evgeny Petrov, who was executed in September of 2010 shortly after being convicted of the assassination of former Russian president Vladimir Putin. The group adopted the name ‘Petrov Brigade’ as a gesture of protest against the execution....

From the April 14^th, 2011 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

The European security and anti-terrorism summit in Vienna is set to conclude tomorrow amid fears by the Kremlin that Russian diplomatic facilities throughout Europe may be targeted for attack by anti-Medvedev extremists....

From the April 16^th, 2011 London Times:

From the April 17^th, 2011 New York Post:

From the April 18^th, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

The Russian defense ministry is angrily denying charges by Amnesty International that soldiers of the regular army perpetrated arson at the home of a critic of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. The alleged victim, a writer living in the town of Barnaul, says the soldiers broke into his home while he was away and deliberately set fire to it; Russian government spokesmen assert the fire was actually the result of an electrical short-circuit...

From the April 20^th, 2011 Daily News of Los Angeles:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DEMANDS INDEPENDENT PROBE OF BARNAUL  FIRE

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES SEIZE REBEL WEAPONS CACHE SOUTH OF YAKUTSK

From the April 21^st, 2011 Manchester Guardian:

ANTI-RUSSIAN PROTESTS SWEEP THROUGH AUSTRIA AS VIENNESE

EXCHANGE STUDENT FACES INDICTMENT IN EMBASSY BOMBING

From the April 23^rd, 2011 New York Times:

BELGIAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM

EXHIBITION MATCH IN BRUSSELS

From the April 25^th, 2011 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

The trial of Austrian exchange student Georg Krieger begins this afternoon amid vehement accusations from his family and university classmates that he has been falsely implicated by Russian intelligence in the Vienna embassy bomb attack...

From the April 26^th, 2011 Montreal Gazette:

MCGILL STUDENTS HOLDING VIGIL FOR GEORG KRIEGER TOMORROW

From the April 29^th, 2011 broadcast of Nine News:

NRPM insurgents are accused of having blown up a critical section of the Baikal-Amur rail line in Siberia as Russian regular army forces attempt to dislodge a nest of rebels from the village of Chegdomyn...

From the May 1^st, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle:

CIA DIRECTOR PANETTA CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF KAZANOV DEATH

Alleges ‘Discrepancies’ In Official Kremlin Account Of Former Army Colonel’s Demise

From the May 4^th, 2011 Boston Globe:

RUSSIAN REBEL FORCES AMBUSH GOVERNMENT TROOP CONVOY NEAR ORENBURG

Kazakhstan puts its border troops on full alert

From the May 6^th, 2011 broadcast of Access Hollywood:

The normally outspoken filmmaker Michael Moore is being unusually tight-lipped about rumors he may be applying for a visa to enter Russia to shoot a documentary about that country’s current civil war, which started nearly a year ago...

From the May 7^th, 2011 Guardian:

KAZAKH PM ACCUSES MOSCOW OF PLOTTING INVASION

Medvedev denies claim, makes counter-charge Kazakhs are aiding NRPM guerrillas

From the May 10^th, 2011 Le Monde(France):

20,000 March In Paris To Protest Krieger Trial

From the May 11^th, 2011 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

The war of words between Kazakhstan and Russia continues to rage on as the Kazakh foreign

ministry accuses Russian intelligence agents of trying to assassinate Kazakhstan’s president...

From the May 13^th, 2011 Toronto Globe & Mail:

FOREIGN MINISTER CANNON TO MEET WITH KAZAKH AMBASSADOR TOMORROW

From the May 15^th, 2011 Los Angeles Times:

TWO KAZAKH DIPLOMATS EXPELLED FROM MOSCOW

RIOTS LEAVE THREE DEAD, ELEVEN INJURED AS DEMONSTRATORS STORM RUSSIAN

EMBASSY IN ASTANA

From the May 18^th, 2011 broadcast of Hardball With Chris Matthews:

Barring an 11th-hour miracle, it’s now all but certain that Kazakhstan and Russia will sever diplomatic ties by the end of the week. Relations between the neighboring countries have sharply and rapidly deteriorated since the Kazakh prime minister gave a speech on May 7^th accusing Russian president Dmitri Medvedev of plotting to invade Kazakhstan...