Part 4

From the July 5^th, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald:

From the July 7^th, 2010 broadcast of Nine News:

Relations between Moscow and Canberra continue to deteriorate over the detention of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV news camera crew that had been probing allegations of Russian war crimes in South Ossetia. Meanwhile, non-essential personnel are being evacuated from Australian diplomatic facilities in Russia as the civil war between the NRPM insurgency and the Medvedev government continues to claim more casualties...

From the July 8^th, 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer:

THE BATTLE OF VLADIVOSTOK

Our Correspondent’s View From The Inside

From the July 10^th, 2010 Boston Globe:

B.C. LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR TO ADVISE SOUTH OSSETIA

WAR CRIMES PANEL

From the July 15^th, 2010 New York Times:

From the July 17^th, 2010 broadcast of CBC News At Six:

Russian government forces today began a counterattack against rebel rocket positions north of Samara. Both sides suffered heavy casualties...

From the July 21^st, 2010 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

Defying the Medvedev government’s ongoing clampdown of anti-war protests in Russia, nearly five hundred demonstrators marched today in Archangelsk calling for Moscow to begin cease-fire negotiations with Georgia...

From the July 25^th, 2010 New York Times:

DUMA LEGISLATOR FOUND DEAD NEAR MOSCOW

Lawmaker Had Given Anti-War Speech Just Hours Earlier;

Foul Play Suspected

From a post at MSNBC.com dated July 27^th, 2010:

BREAKING NEWS-- VLADIMIR PUTIN SHOT BY UNKNOWN

ASSAILANT WHILE SPEAKING TO GEORGIA WAR VETERANS

From an NBC News special report that same day:

We are getting conflicting reports at this hour concerning the apparent assassination attempt against former Russian president and current prime minister Vladimir Putin. Putin, a longtime ally of current Russian president Dmitiri Medvedev, was shot around 6:30 PM in the evening Moscow time--10:30 in the morning our time --as he was giving a speech welcoming a group of Russian army veterans home from the front lines of the current Russian-Georgian war over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. The official word from the Kremlin is that Putin is in serious but stable condition at a Moscow hospital; however, the satellite network al-Jazeera is reporting Putin is in critical condition and at least one independent Russian television news program is even suggesting he may already be dead...

From the July 28^th, 2010 Manchester Guardian:

PUTIN ALIVE BUT IN CRITICAL CONDITION AS POLICE SEARCH

MOSCOW FOR HIS ATTACKER

From the July 29^th, 2010 Washington Post:

CNN: PUTIN’S HEALTH DETERIORATING

MOSCOW POLICE MAKE ARREST IN PUTIN ATTACK

From a BBC News special bulletin broadcast July 31^st, 2010:

We have received confirmation from the Russian embassy in London within the last few minutes that former president Vladimir Putin has died from gunshot wounds sustained four days ago when he was attacked while speaking to a group of returning Russian Army veterans of the current war with Georgia. Ironically, Putin’s assassin, arrested two days ago, is himself a former soldier...

From a press release by the UN Secretary General’s office dated August 2^nd, 2010:

United Nations mediators will leave for Vienna tomorrow to meet with Russian and Georgian diplomatic officials to begin negotiations for a cease-fire to end the current South Ossetian conflict...

From the August 4^th, 2010 New York Times:

PUTIN LAID TO REST AMID QUESTIONS ABOUT ASSASSIN’S MOTIVE

RUSSIAN REBELS CLAIM CONTROL OF MAGADAN

From the August 7^th, 2010 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

From the August 9^th, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald:

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS ENGAGING NRPM GUERRILLAS EAST OF

MAGADAN

From the August 10^th, 2010 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

For the first time since his arrest for the assassination of former Russian president Vladimir Putin the suspected assassin, ex-Russian Army sergeant Evgeny Petrov, is giving hints above his motive for the killing. In his testimony today Petrov said that when he shot Putin on July 27^th he was acting, in his words, "to avenge the deaths of those gallant soldiers whose lives were thrown away at Surami"...

From the August 12^th, 2010 Asahi Shimbun:

MARITIME SELF-DEFENSE FORCE TO PROBE SINKING OF RUSSIAN

SHIP OFF HOKKAIDO

Captain’s distress call warned of mutiny attempt on board just before vessel

was lost

From the August 13^th, 2010 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

New details are emerging tonight regarding the sinking of a Russian cargo ship off the Japanese island of Hokkaido Wednesday. Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force officials say they have learned from a survivor of the lost transport ship V. L. Ivanov that a mutiny attempt had indeed broken out on board the ill-fated ship just before she went down; it is believed that the mutiny was sparked by crew members sympathetic to the New Russian People’s Movement that has been fighting a guerrilla war against the government of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev since May....

From the August 16^th, 2010 Los Angeles Times:

MOSCOW POLICE MAKE TWO ARRESTS IN MURDER OF RUSSIAN LAWMAKER

FIGHTING REPORTED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AND NRPM

REBELS NEAR KRASNODAR

From the August 18^th, 2010 Washington Times: