Part 3

From the May 23^rd, 2010 San Francisco Examiner:

KREMLIN MUM ON MEDVEDEV WHEREABOUTS;

STREET FIGHTING REPORTED IN ST. PETERSBURG

 

From a U.S. State Department press release dated May 25^th, 2010:

Secretary of State Clinton is continuing to keep an eye on the latest developments in Russia. It is her fervent hope, and ours, that the civil unrest there be resolved as quickly and peacefully as possible not only for the sake of the Russian people but also for the sake of getting the Ossetian cease-fire talks restarted...

 

From the May 29^th, 2010 broadcast of MSNBC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann:

If anybody watching this show right now still needs proof that we’ve got an honest-to-God civil war going on in Russia, they won’t have to wait much longer to get it-- scuttlebutt from Reuters has it that two Russian army battalions are about to get recalled from South Ossetia to handle suspected rebel activity near Smolensk...

From the June 1^st, 2010 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

The Russian defense ministry has confirmed that at least one sizable army unit has been brought home from the war in Ossetia to put down a reputed anti-Medvedev insurgent cell in the Smolensk region...

From the June 2^nd, 2010 New York Times:

From the June 3^rd, 2010 Toronto Globe & Mail:

SENIOR CANADIAN FORCES OFFICIAL TASKED TO HEAD U.N. PANEL ON

ALLEGED RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES IN SOUTH OSSETIA

From the June 5^th, 2010 Washington Post:

ANTI-MEDVEDEV RALLY DRAWS 20,000 IN MURMANSK

From the June 8^th, 2010 broadcast of Nine News:

We are still trying at this hour to get confirmation on rumors that the South Ossetian foreign minister has been placed under house arrest...

From a post at MSNBC.com dated June 9^th, 2010:

From the June 11^th, 2010 New York Daily News:

From an NBC News special report dated June 13^th, 2010:

We’ve received word within the last hour that Russian ground units have apparently launched a full-out offensive aimed at isolating Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi...

From the June 15^th, 2010 Boston Globe:

From the June 16^th, 2010 broadcast of The CBS Morning News:

From the June 19^th, 2010 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

South Ossetia’s prime minister has been shot in an apparent assassination attempt...

From a story posted at MSNBC.com just after midnight on June 20^th:

From a memo by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to President Barack Obama dated June 21^st, 2010:

From the June 23^rd, 2010 broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor:

It’s now been ten days since the Kremlin began the offensive that was supposedly going to end the war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway state of South Ossetia by capturing Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi. Napoleon Bonaparte once said no battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy, but Moscow’s strategy for taking Tbilisi seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket before first contact with the enemy. The anti-Medvedev rebellion going on within Russia’s own borders has seriously complicated the Medvedev government’s prosecution of the Georgian conflict, and the recent assassination of South Ossetia’s prime minister has served to stir up the pot even further...

From the June 26^th, 2010 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

The Russian foreign ministry is refusing to confirm or deny rumours that an army division commander attached to the Russian forces in South Ossetia has resigned his commission in protest over the Medvedev government’s conduct of its war with the so-called New Russia People’s Movement which has been fighting for more than a month now to overthrow the Russian premier...

From the July 2^nd, 2010 New York Post: