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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 16
From the February 2nd, 2012 Worcester Telegram:
LATEST POLLS HINT OBAMA MAY LOSE IN N.H.
PRIMARIES
President also facing trouble in Iowa caucuses
From the February 3rd, 2012 broadcast of
BBC Breakfast:
The search for a Russian air force lieutenant who
disappeared 36 hours ago just as he was scheduled to take part in a bombing
raid on NRPM insurgent bases southwest of Gorky is heating up amid rumors he
may have defected to the rebel side...
From the February 5th, 2012 Daily
Mail:
KREMLIN SACKS TWO PROMINENT AIR FORCE COMMANDERS
AS NRPM CONFIRMS DEFECTION OF MISSING LIEUTENANT
From the book Prodigal Son: The Defection Of
Lt. Valery M. Kazrenko, copyright 2038 Regnery Publishing:
For the beleaguered Medvedev government, the
Kazrenko defection felt a kick in the teeth. At a time when the Kremlin needed
any good news it could get in its fight against the NRPM rebellion, the
lieutenant’s desertion to the enemy lines constituted the worst possible news
at the worst possible moment. It was like Sergeant York going over to the
Germans or General MacArthur absconding to the Japanese lines at Bataan....
From the February 8th, 2012 edition of
The Australian:
RUSSIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF FIRED AS KREMLIN
INQUIRY
INTO KAZRENKO DEFECTION CONTINUES
From the February 9th, 2012 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Two more Canadian diplomats have been expelled
from Moscow tonight as the tense diplomatic standoff between Russia and Canada
over the two Canadian tourists arrested last month in St. Petersburg continues
to drag on with no end in sight...
From the February 11th, 2012
Chicago Tribune:
EIGHT INJURED, 21 ARRESTED IN MELEE OUTSIDE
RUSSIAN CONSULATE IN MONTREAL
From the February 12th, 2012
Washington Post:
FORMER GEORG KRIEGER DEFENSE COUNSEL TO TAKE CASE
OF CANADIAN TOURISTS DETAINED IN RUSSIA
From the February 14th, 2012 broadcast
of Deutsche Welle’s European Journal:
Security personnel at Russian naval bases on the
Black Sea are on full alert today after an unexploded bomb believed to have
been planted by NRPM agents was found last night at fleet headquarters in
Sevastopol...
From a story posted at CNN.com the next day:
BREAKING NEWS--2ND UNEXPLODED BOMB
DISCOVERED AT A RUSSIAN BLACK
SEA NAVAL FACILITY
From the February 17th, 2012 broadcast
of CBS Evening News:
For the fourth time in as many days an unexploded
bomb has been found at a Russian naval outpost in the Black Sea region. Why
the NRPM, which is believed to be behind this as well as the previous three
such incidents, would plant such devices without arming them is difficult to
understand, but authorities in Moscow suspect it may be a psychological
warfare tactic meant to unnerve government forces....
From the February 19th, 2012 Daily
Mail:
PM CAMERON TO
ADDRESS HOUSE OF COMMONS ON LATEST EVENTS IN RUSSIA
Whitehall concerned about latest escalation of
hostilities in civil war
From the February 21st, 2012 broadcast
of CBC News At Six:
Russian government army units are reported to be
engaging NRPM guerrillas about sixteen miles northwest of Novosibirsk…
From the February 22nd, 2012 Wall
Street Journal:
OBAMA ECONOMIC & FOREIGN POLICY MISSTEPS MAY HURT
HIM ON SUPER TUESDAY, SAY PUNDITS
Latest CNN.com Poll Indicates 82% Of Likely
Voters In November Elections
Disapprove Of President’s Handling Of Russian
Civil War
From the February 24th, 2012
Calgary Sun:
Canadian-Russian Relations At An All-Time Low As
#2 Deputy Consul
At Moscow Embassy Prepares To Return Home
From the February 27th, 2012 broadcast
of NBC Nightly News:
An anonymous source at Russian defense ministry
headquarters in Moscow has confirmed NRPM insurgents in the Novosibirsk region
have renewed their attack on government forces and surrounded at least one
Russian regular army unit...
From the February 28th, 2012
Moscow News:
TOP ARMY COMMANDER IN NOVOSIBIRSK BELIEVED DEAD
IN ROCKET ATTACK
From the March 1st, 2012 broadcast of
The CBS Evening News:
With his domestic
economic policies under fire and his handling of the Russian civil war calling
his foreign policy into question, President Obama is facing the grim and
embarrassing prospect of becoming the first incumbent president since LBJ to
be denied his party’s nomination for another term in the White House....
From a story posted at Foxnews.com on March 2nd,
2012:
NO
COMMENT FROM KREMLIN ON UPI REPORT RUSSIAN REGULAR ARMY
PULLING OUT OF NOVOSIBIRSK AREA
From the March 4th, 2012 Boston
Globe:
CIA REPORTS RUSSIAN REBEL FORCES IN CONTROL OF
NOVOSIBIRSK
From the March 5th, 2012
Washington Post:
SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON TO MEET WITH RUSSIAN &
CANADIAN
AMBASSADORS TO U.S. TODAY
Seeks To Resolve Ongoing Diplomatic Row Between
Moscow And Ottawa
From the March 7th, 2012 Sydney
Morning Herald:
27 ARRESTED AT ANTI-WAR RALLY IN GORKY
From the March 9th, 2012 Montreal
Gazette:
KREMLIN ACCUSES NRPM OF EXECUTING CAPTURED
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
To Be Continued
