Part 12

From the July 9^th, 2011 broadcast of BBC World News:

Lawyers for jailed Austrian exchange student Georg Krieger are vowing to appeal his conviction for terrorism in connection with the firebomb attack on the Russian embassy in Vienna three months ago…

From the July 10^th, 2011 New York Daily News:

KRIEGER GUILTY, SEZ KREMLIN

Russian prosecutor general says he’ll fight Austrian student’s appeal bid

From the July 12^th, 2011 edition of The Australian:

From the July 14^th, 2011 broadcast of NBC Nightly News:

This year Bastille Day in France is being marked by huge rallies protesting Russia’s war with Kazakhstan and expressing support for jailed Austrian exchange student Georg Krieger, who is currently appealing his conviction and life sentence on terrorism charges...In Paris alone, a quarter of a million demonstrators are holding a sit-in outside the Russian embassy; organizers of that protest say the sit-in will continue until Krieger has been released from prison....

From the July 15^th, 2011 San Francisco Examiner:

RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT TV ANCHOR FOUND DEAD IN GORKY

Veteran Newswoman Was Investigating Allegations Of Cover-Up In Barnaul Arson Fire

For the beleaguered Medvedev regime, the outbreak of the Kazakh war could hardly have come at a worse time. Not only was the NRPM rebellion still active, but relations between Russia and China were deteriorating to their lowest point since the Sino-Soviet border skirmishes of the late 1960s; Moscow had accused the Chinese of secretly instigating the Kazakhs to go to war with Russia in an attempt to distract the Kremlin from the growing Chinese military buildup along the Sino-Russian border, and Beijing in turn charged the Russians with acts of brutality against Kazakh civilians...

From the July 17^th, 2011 China Daily:

120 KAZAKH CIVILIANS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY RUSSIAN INVASION TROOPS

World demands war criminals be held accountable for Ekibastuz massacre

From the July 18^th, 2011 Washington Times:

Could Ekibastuz Be Russia’s My Lai?

From a story posted at FoxNews.com that same day:

BREAKING NEWS: Kazakh government petitions U.N. to investigate alleged Russian war crimes at Ekibastuz

From the July 21^st, 2011 Manchester Guardian:

A.P.--Russian push on Astara stalled as Kazakh ground forces launch counterattack

From the July 23^rd, 2011 New York Post:

KAZAKH AND AWE

Russians break off attempt to seize Astara as Kazakh troops breach their rear flank

From the July 24^th, 2011 broadcast of BBC Breakfast:

The government of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev is facing disaster today on two fronts. In Kazakhstan, two divisions of Russian troops are trapped by Kazakh forces in a pocket eight miles north of the Kazakh capital Astara; meanwhile, the NRPM rebellion has gained a significant tactical victory in its war against the Medvedev administration with the capture late last night of a Russian air force base on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The air base, located northwest of the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, is well within striking distance of Russian government forces holding the Siberian industrial city of Magadan...

From the July 26^th, 2011 broadcast of Good Morning America:

Al-Jazeera is reporting at this hour that the Russian pocket north of Kazakhstan’s

capital city Astara is on the verge of collapse....

From the July 29^th, 2011 broadcast of BBC World News:

The family of a Russian independent TV reporter found dead in Gorky nearly two weeks ago is alleging that her death was a homicide carried out on orders from the government’s FSB intelligence service....

From a story posted at CBC.ca on August 2^nd, 2011:

From the broadcast of NBC Nightly News that same day:

China is vowing tonight to break off diplomatic relations with Russia if Russian combat forces are not withdrawn from Kazakhstan in the next ten days....

 

From the August 3^rd, 2011 New York Post:

From the August 5^th, 2011 BBC Breakfast:

From the August 6^th, 2011 broadcast of Nine’s Morning News Hour:

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton left Washington an hour ago on an emergency diplomatic mission to Beijing, where she hopes to persuade the Chinese government to retract its threat to sever diplomatic relations with Russia if the government of current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev does not withdraw its troops from Kazakhstan in six days’ time....

From the August 9^th, 2011 broadcast of CBC News at Six:

With just three days left before the Chinese government’s deadline for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kazakhstan is set to expire, the Japanese prime minister’s cabinet is meeting in emergency session to discuss the possibility of suspending Article 9 of Japan’s constitution. This article, which forbids the Japanese government from waging war against other countries, is seen as a potential obstacle to the current administration’s desire to be fully prepared to resist possible attack by China if the Kazakh border escalates into a wider regional conflict....

From the August 11^th, 2011 Daily Mail:

50,000 MARCH IN ST. PETERSBURG IN PROTEST OF KAZAKH WAR

To Be Continued