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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 11
From the May 20th, 2011 New York
Times:
KAZAKHSTAN CLOSES ITS EMBASSY IN MOSCOW; RUSSIAN
EMBASSY STAFF IN ASTARA EXPELLED
From the May 22nd, 2011 broadcast of
Nine News:
...European leaders tonight are expressing grave
concern about the break in Russian-Kazakh relations as the two countries
continue to trade charges and countercharges concerning alleged Russian plans
to invade Kazakhstan. The Russian government has accused the Kazakhs of
secretly aiding the NRPM’s uprising against the government of current Russian
president Dmitri Medvedev....
From the May 25th, 2011 Rand Daily
Mail:
SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW DAMAGED IN
ANTI-KAZAKH RIOTING
From the May 26th, 2011 broadcast of
BBC World News:
Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has
been appointed to chair a U.N.-sponsored panel on alleviating the plight of
the estimated 200,000 refugees from Russia’s ongoing civil war, currently in
its second year...
From the May 28th, 2011 Boston
Herald:
KAZAKHS? TOP GENERAL: WE?RE READY TO RUMBLE
Army C-in-C pledges his troops will resist if
Russia invades
From the May 29th, 2011 Washington
Post:
RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ALLEGES KAZAKH TROOPS
HAVE FIRED
ON RUSSIAN ARMY BORDER PATROLS; KAZAKHS SAY
ALLEGATIONS FALSE
From the May 30th, 2011 broadcast of
Today:
Memorial Day will be an even more somber occasion
than usual this year in our nation’s capital as the Obama administration
continues its efforts to bring a peaceful end to the civil war in Russia and
tries to avert armed conflict between Russia and Kazakhstan, who broke off
diplomatic relations over ten days ago...
From the June 2nd, 2011 broadcast of
BBC Breakfast:
The government of Britain’s prime minister David
Cameron is taking severe criticism from its constituents over its handling of
the present crisis along the Russian-Kazakh border. According to a
Guardian poll which will be published later today, 76% of those
surveyed believe the current prime minister is not doing enough to deter
Russia from going to war with Kazakhstan....
From the June 4th, 2011 New York
Times:
KREMLIN CHARGES KAZAKH PLANE WITH VIOLATING RUSSIAN AIRSPACE
From the June 7th, 2011 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
Three days after the Russian government accused
the Kazakh air force of violating Russia’s airspace, Kazakhstan is charging
that Russian spy planes have been making repeated overflights of Kazakh
territory...
From the June 9th, 2011 Washington
Times:
Defense Department Report Says Russian-Kazakh
Border War May Erupt Before End Of Summer
From the June 13th, 2011 London
Times:
CAMERON-MEDVEDEV SUMMIT CANCELLED
PM cites illness as reason for his decision,
denies Kazakh border crisis played any role in the cancellation
From the June 15th, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
China has offered to mediate the escalating
border dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan...
From the June 18th, 2011 broadcast of
Nine News:
As Russia and Kazakhstan continue to teeter on
the brink of war, Russian regular army units have staged a landing at the
island of Novaya Zemlya in an operation intended to root out suspected NRPM
cells on that island....
From the June 19th, 2011 Jerusalem
Post:
ISRAEL NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM POSTPONES
KAZAKHSTAN EXHIBITION MATCH
Organizers cite safety concerns related to
Kazakh-Russian border crisis
From the June 22nd, 2011 broadcast of
CBS Morning News:
70 years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet
Union and 13 months after Russia was plunged into civil war, the Russian
government finds itself confronted with still another deadly armed conflict.
Sources at the Kazakh embassy in Washington have confirmed with the past
half-hour that the prime minister of Kazakhstan will be giving a televised
address to his countrymen at noon Eastern Standard Time to make the formal
announcement that a state of war now exists between Kazakhstan and Russia
following what Reuters reports was an apparent Russian commando raid on a
Kazakh border guard post....
From the June 23rd, 2011 Sydney
Morning Herald:
MEDVEDEV DENIES COMMANDO ATTACK ON KAZAKHSTAN,
ACCUSES
KAZAKH GOVERNMENT OF "WANTON AGGRESSION"
From the June 25th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER DENOUNCES "RUSSIAN
BELLIGERENCE" TOWARD KAZAKHSTAN
U.N. SUSPENDS KHABAROVSK INVESTIGATION AMID
TURMOIL IN SECURITY COUNCIL
From the June 28th, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
President Obama will be giving televised press
conference at 11:00 AM Eastern time tomorrow to outline his proposals for
ending the 13-month-old civil war in Russia and the armed conflict which broke
out six days ago between Russia and Kazakhstan....
From the June 30th, 2011
Washington Post:
LONDON TIMES WRITER JAILED IN MOSCOW ON ESPIONAGE
CHARGES
Detained journalist had been investigating
allegations of war crimes at Novaya Zemlya
From a story posted at CNN.com on July 2nd,
2011:
BREAKING NEWS--RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMS
AIR STRIKES ON ASTARA
From an editorial posted at Townhall.com on July 3rd,
2011:
It seems a sad irony
that while America celebrates its independence, the Kazakh people are in
danger of losing theirs...
From stories posted at MSNBC.com on
July 6th, 2011:
BREAKING NEWS: ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS RUSSIAN
TANKS SIGHTED
10 MILES OUTSIDE ASTARA, GEORG KRIEGER SENTENCED
TO LIFE IN PRISON
From the July 8th, 2011 broadcast of
BBC World News:
Russian ground forces in
Kazakhstan are encountering heavier than expected resistance as they attempt
to capture the Kazakh capital city, Astara. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman
told BBC News this afternoon that the latest intelligence reports from British
defence attachés in the region indicate at least a third of the original
Russian attack force has been lost to enemy fire...
To Be Continued
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