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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 13
From the August 12th, 2011 broadcast of
BBC Breakfast:
For the first time in at least a week there are
signs of hope in the standoff between China and Russia. The Foreign
Secretary’s office announced late last night that Beijing has agreed to
continue diplomatic relations with Moscow for the time being pending the
results of a UN- brokered conference between Russian and Kazakh diplomats
aimed at finding a means of working out a cease-fire pact between Russia and
Kazakhstan to end the border war which has been raging for nearly two months.
The Chinese government had previously threatened to sever diplomatic ties with
Russia if Russian combat troops did not withdraw from Kazakh territory
by today....
From the August 14th, 2011
Washington Post:
OBAMA VOICES "HOPE FOR FURTHER PROGRESS" IN
RUSSIAN-KAZAKH
CEASE-FIRE TALKS
From the August 17th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WON’T COMMENT ON RUMORS
CEASE-FIRE
ACCORD IS IMMINENT
From the August 18th, 2011 broadcast of
Nine News:
The nearly two-month-old border conflict between
Russia and Kazakhstan may at last be coming to an end. A source close to the
Kazakh delegation at the UN-sponsored cease- fire negotiations in Geneva said
late this afternoon that the Russian and Kazakh diplomats conducting the talks
are close to a final agreement on a pact that would end hostilities at the
earliest possible moment....
From the August 20th, 2011 San
Francisco Examiner:
KREMLIN, ASTARA CONFIRM CEASE-FIRE TO BE SIGNED
TOMORROW
RUSSIAN REBEL JET SHOT DOWN SOUTHEAST OF MAGADAN
From the August 22nd, 2011 New
York Times:
CEASE-FIRE TAKES EFFECT ALONG KAZAKHSTAN BORDER
From the August 25th, 2011 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
Russian anti-war activists are demanding that the
Medvedev government allow U.N. investigators back into Russia to resume their
inquiries into the Khabarovsk massacres...
From the August 27th, 2011
Washington Post:
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS LAUNCH ASSAULT TO
RETAKE
REBEL-HELD AIRBASE IN KAMCHATKA
From a story posted at BBC.co.uk on August 28th,
2011:
REUTERS REPORT SAYS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS
TAKING
HEAVIER LOSSES THAN EXPECTED AT KAMCHATKA
From the August 31st, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
NRPM insurgent forces occupying the airbase at
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy on the Kamchatka Peninsula claim they are still
holding it in spite of a four-day-old offensive by government forces to retake
the base...
From the September 1st, 2011 broadcast
of BBC Breakfast:
The Russian defense ministry has just issued a
statement declaring victory in the regular army’s five-day-long campaign to
retake an air base at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy from NRPM insurgent forces...
From the September 3rd, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald:
NRPM SOURCES CONFIRM LAST POCKETS OF RESISTANCE
AT
PETROPAVLOVSK WIPED OUT BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS
From the September 4th, 2011 broadcast
of The CBS Evening News:
A week before America prepares to observe the
ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev is
warning his fellow countrymen to be on guard against a possible 9/11-style
attack by the NRPM. In a speech before the Duma parliament earlier
today, Medvedev said the FSB intelligence service has obtained credible
evidence that an NRPM cell in northern Russia is plotting to hijack an
Aeroflot jet and crash it into a major target in Moscow or St. Petersburg....
From the September 6th, 2011 Daily
Mail:
FSB ARRESTS 65 IN ANTI-TERROR SWEEPS IN MOSCOW
AND GORKY
Further evidence of alleged hijack plot surfaces
From the September 9th, 2011 Los
Angeles Times:
DECISION ON KRIEGER APPEAL COULD COME SOON
Source at Russian prosecutor general’s office
hints ruling may be issued next week
From the September 10th, 2011
New York Daily News:
CAUGHT RED(SQUARE) HANDED
Eight arrested in new plot to attack Lenin’s Tomb
as anti-terror crackdowns continue in Moscow and Gorky
From the September 12th, 2011 edition of
The Australian:
RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT ARMY SEIZES REBEL MUNITIONS DUMP NEAR UHTA
KRIEGER APPEAL DENIED
From the September 13th, 2011
Washington Post:
OBAMA: "NO COMMENT" ON GATES RESIGNATION RUMORS
President, Secretary of Defense Believed To Be At
Odds On White House’s Russian Civil War Policy
From the September 15th, 2011 broadcast
of CBC News At Six:
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Vienna and
Salzburg today to denounce the Russian government’s rejection of Austrian
exchange student Georg Krieger’s appeal for a new trial. Krieger, who was
convicted on terrorism charges back in July in connection with the firebombing
of the Russian embassy in Vienna, is continuing to maintain his innocence...
From the September 16th, 2011 broadcast
of BBC World News:
Prime Minister Cameron today denounced the
Russian judiciary’s rejection of
Georg Krieger’s appeal for a new trial...
From the September 18th, 2011 New
York Times:
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS URGE OBAMA TO PRESSURE MOSCOW
FOR KRIEGER’S RELEASE
ALLEGED NRPM SUPPLY SHIP BOARDED IN SEA OF
OKHOTSK
From the September 21st, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald:
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED IN UNTIMELY DEATH OF ANTI-WAR
RUSSIAN AUTHOR
From the September 23rd, 2011
Edmonton Sun:
CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS GATHER FOR "FREE
GEORG KRIEGER" RALLY
From the September 27th, 2011 broadcast
of Nine News:
A spokesman for the Russian embassy in Canberra
has confirmed within the past half-hour that a mass evacuation of civilians
from Volgograd is underway tonight in advance of an upcoming push by
government forces against NRPM insurgents in the region....
From the September 29th, 2011 broadcast
of Vremya:
Regular army units are engaging rebel forces at
this hour in the Volgograd area....
From the October 1st, 2011 New
York Post:
SUCH VOLGA LANGUAGE!
Russian lawmaker criticized for using sexual
epithet in anti-NRPM speech about Volgograd situation
From the October 2nd, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Just when it looked like Russian government
troops had won the battle for Volgograd, word has come tonight of a surprise
rebel rocket attack on regular army positions about a mile northwest of the
city....
From the book "Fate Was Angry With Us": The
Battle of Volgograd And Its Impact On Russian History, copyright 2038
HarperCollins:
The surprise
NRPM rocket attack on the government army’s northern front was a shock to the
system for the Kremlin. None of Medvedev’s generals had expected the
under-equipped rebel units in the region to even contemplate such a bold move,
much less that it would succeed in putting the government forces on the
defensive....
From the October 5th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
MEDVEDEV DENIES ORDERING RETREAT OF GOVT. TROOPS
FROM VOLGOGRAD
From the October 9th, 2011 broadcast of
Good Morning America:
The head of intelligence for the Russian regular
army has been fired for allegedly missing vital clues that might have enabled
government forces to anticipate last week’s rebel rocket attack on regular
army units north of the city of Volgograd. That attack is blamed by many
within the Russian defense establishment for forcing government troops to pull
back from the city....
To Be Continued
