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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 14
From the October 11th, 2011 broadcast of
CBS Morning News:
An anonymous NRPM spokesman has told Reuters that
rebel forces are occupying key government buildings in Volgograd...
From the October 12th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
2 RUSSIAN ARMY BATTALION COMMANDERS SACKED AS
REBEL FORCES
TIGHTEN GRIP ON VOLGOGRAD
From the October 14th, 2011
Montreal Gazette:
NEW RUSSIAN REGULAR ARMY ATTACK ON REBEL OUTPOSTS
NEAR BRYANSK
From the October 17th, 2011 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
T
he
Russian defense ministry issued a statement this afternoon announcing that a
raid by unmanned drone aircraft on NRPM bases east of Magadan has killed at
least eight high-ranking guerrilla leaders....
From the October 19th, 2011 Boston
Globe:
AL-JAZEERA REPORTS LAST REMAINING RUSSIAN REGULAR
TROOPS AT VOLGOGRAD
UNDER SIEGE
Kremlin disputes siege claims
From the October 20th, 2011
Washington Post:
PANETTA: RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS MAY HAVE
ORGANIZED YESTERDAY’S
CYBERATTACK ON PRO-NRPM WEBSITES
From the October 21st, 2011 Daily
Mail:
LAST RUSSIAN GOVT. STRONGPOINT IN VOLGOGRAD FALLS
TO REBEL TROOPS
From a story posted at CBS.com that same day:
Breaking News--Russian defense minister resigns
From the October 23rd, 2011 broadcast of
Nine News Morning Hour:
Political turmoil grips the Kremlin today as
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev struggles both to find a successor for his
defense minister, who resigned two days ago under a cloud following the defeat
of government forces at Volgograd by NRPM insurgents, and to salvage what
looks like an increasingly untenable military situation in the Bryansk
region....
From the October 24th, 2011
Washington Times:
AIDE TO DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES SUSPECTED OF
LEAKING
CONTROVERSIAL "BRYANSK MEMO"
DOD Document Questions Obama Administration
Policy On The Civil War In Russia
From the October 26th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY WEB PAGE HACKED BY
POLISH
CYBER-ACTIVISTS
Pro-NRPM group says site intrusion was response
to last week’s cyberattack
on rebel online networks; Kremlin demands
prosecution of hackers
From the October 27th, 2011 broadcast of
Good Morning America:
A war of words between Russia and Poland this
morning as authorities in Moscow continue to investigate the cyberattack made
earlier this week on the Russian defense ministry’s official website....
From the October 29th, 2011 New
York Post:
KREMLIN SAYS: EXIT, POLES
13 Polish diplomats expelled from Moscow as
investigation into hacking of Russian defense ministry webpage continues
From the October 31st, 2011 broadcast of
CBS Morning News:
It’s going to be a tense Halloween for the Obamas
as the President tries to resolve the growing rift between Warsaw and Moscow
over the recent hacking of the Russian armed forces’ official website by
Polish supporters of the NRPM insurgency inside Russia....
From the November 2nd, 2011 Daily
Mail:
PM CAMERON IN CONSULTATIONS WITH POLISH FOREIGN
MINISTER
From the November 3rd, 2011
Chicago Tribune:
POLISH ARMY TO HOLD MANEUVERS NEXT WEEK
Defense minister denies exercises are related to
current standoff with Russia
From the November 4th, 2011 broadcast of
Good Morning America:
Some tense moments along the border between
Russia and Poland late last night as a Russian reconnaissance drone briefly
crossed into Polish airspace….
From the November 6th, 2011 San
Francisco Examiner:
POLISH U.N. AMBASSADOR FILES PROTEST OF RUSSIAN
RECON DRONE OVERFLIGHT
From the November 7th, 2011 Sydney
Morning Herald:
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DISPUTES POLISH ACCOUNT
OF DRONE INCIDENT
From the November 10th, 2011 broadcast
of BBC World News:
The Foreign Secretary’s office has expressed
concern tonight about the steadily deteriorating state of Russo-Polish
diplomatic relations. As charges and counter-charges continue to fly between
Warsaw and Moscow over last week’s drone incident, six more Polish diplomats
have been expelled from Russia and a junior attaché with the Russian embassy
in Poland is facing allegations of espionage...
From the November 12th, 2011
Chicago Tribune:
MEDVEDEV BLASTS POLAND
AS DEMONSTRATORS TRY TO STORM RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN WARSAW
Russian president accuses Polish government of
instigating drone crisis
From the November 15th, 2011 Daily
Mail:
Two Moscow Peace Activists Arrested As
Co-Conspirators In Cyber-Attack
On Russian Defense Website
From the
November 17th, 2011 broadcast of CBC News At Six:
As Russian-Polish diplomatic relations continue
to worsen, police in the Swiss capital Zurich are investigating the mysterious
death late last night of an independent Russian journalist who was researching
cases of alleged harassment of Russian political dissidents in Switzerland,
Russia, Poland and Austria by agents of the FSB counterintelligence
service....
In a related story, the Russian defense ministry
has acknowledged that incidents of post-traumatic stress disorder among
servicemen in the country’s regular armed forces are on the rise as the
eighteen-month-old civil war between the Medvedev government and the NRPM
insurgency continues to drag on...
From a story posted at ABCNews.com on November 21st,
2011:
Developing Story--Accused "Bryansk Memo" Leaker
Facing Indictment By Federal Grand Jury
From the November 23rd, 2011 Miami
Herald:
RAUL CASTRO TO HOST STATE VISIT TO CUBA BY POLISH
PRESIDENT
AS U.N
.
TRIES TO MEDIATE RUSSIA-POLAND DRONE CRISIS
From the November 24th, 2011 broadcast
of Good Morning America:
Conservative Republicans in Congress are calling
for a wider investigation into the leak of the "Bryansk Memo" as two more
aides to Defense Secretary Robert Gates have been named as potential
co-conspirators in the scandal....
From the November 27th, 2011
Süddeutsche Zeiting:
FEDERAL BORDER PATROLS ON ALERT FOR WAVE OF
REFUGEES AS POLISH SITUATION WORSENS
From the November 29th, 2011
Washington Post:
NRPM GUERRILLAS ATTACK RUSSIAN ARMY PATROL NEAR
OREL
Military Analysts Say Skirmish Reflects Weakened
State Of Government Troop Units In Bryansk Region
From the November 30th, 2011 broadcast
of BBC Breakfast:
Russian government forces launched a
counterattack against rebel troops near Orel earlier today...
From the December 2nd, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Amid endless questions of his handling of the "Bryansk
memo" scandal, President Obama said today that he had no plans to replace
Defense Secretary Robert Gates despite growing calls among Republicans and
some of Obama’s fellow Democrats for Gates’ resignation...
From the December 3rd, 2011 Irish
Times:
Dublin University Students To Hold Rally For
Poland Tomorrow
From the December 7th, 2011
Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
OBAMA TO MARK 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF
PEARL HARBOR AMID QUESTIONS ABOUT GATES’ FUTURE
From the December 8th, 2011 broadcast of
Vremya:
Army spokesmen said today that the main rebel
pocket in the Orel area has been surrounded by infantry and airborne troops...
From the December 10th, 2011 broadcast
of ABC World News Tonight:
There are now eight people under investigation in
the Bryansk memo scandal; another indictment related to that case was handed
down by the Justice Department late this afternoon....
From the December 12th, 2011
Manchester Guardian:
VIDEO OF POLISH BORDER DRONE INCIDENT POSTED ON
YOUTUBE
Clip seems to bolster Warsaw’s account of
incursion; Moscow demands independent analysis of footage
From the book Fly In The Ointment: The 2011
Polish Border Crisis And Its Role In The Breakdown Of Russia’s Medvedev
Government, copyright 2045 Yale University Press:
The drone incident in Polish airspace was a major
distraction for the Kremlin at a time when it could least afford one. The
struggle against the NRPM was taking a turn for the worse; relations with
Kazakhstan were still tense in the aftermath of the Russian-Kazakh war; at
home, Russia’s economy was still feeling the effects of the global recession
of 2008; and in Medvedev’s own government there were some people beginning to
doubt the wisdom of his policies regarding the NRPM rebellion....
From a story posted at CBC.ca on December 14th,
2011:
BREAKING NEWS--RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS KILLED
IN SUICIDE
BOMBING NEAR OREL
To Be Continued
