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Ask Not What Your
Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian
Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 5
From the August 21st, 2010 Toronto Globe
& Mail:
‘DUMA MURDER’ PRIME SUSPECTS TO BE INDICTED TODAY
REBEL FORCES UNDER SIEGE NEAR SMOLENSK
From the August 23rd, 2010 New York Times:
U.N. ENVOYS "HOPEFUL" FOR BREAKTHROUGH IN RUSSIA-
GEORGIA CEASEFIRE TALKS
From the August 26th, 2010 broadcast of Good
Morning America:
Vice-President Joe Biden is denying rumors his decision
yesterday to postpone a scheduled meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei
Lavrov has anything to do with the Kremlin’s expulsion
of a Washington Post Moscow bureau writer on August 22nd.
The correspondent, a six-year veteran of the Post’s European desk,
was deported back to the U.S. after submitting an article to the paper
questioning whether Russia’s Federal Security Service may have played a role
in the so-called ‘Duma murder’...
From a post at CNN.com dated August 28th, 2010:
BREAKING NEWS--EVGENY PETROV SENTENCED TO DEATH
IN PUTIN ASSASSINATION
From the August 31st, 2010 London Times:
SECURITY AIRTIGHT IN MOSCOW AS ‘DUMA MURDER’ TRIAL
BEGINS
Protestors barred from demonstrating outside courtroom
From the September 2nd, 2010 broadcast of CBC
News At Six:
Hundreds of Polish-Canadians marched outside the Russian
embassy in Ottawa today condemning the Kremlin’s delay in accepting a cease-
fire proposal made by Georgia three days ago at the South Ossetian peace
talks...
From the September 3rd, 2010 of Paris-Match:
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT KRASNODAR?
The World Looks For The Truth
From the September 5th, 2010 San Francisco
Examiner:
UN NEGOTIATORS SAY RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN CEASEFIRE PACT
"IMMINENT"
From the September 6th, 2010 issue of Newsweek:
RUSSIA’S CIVIL WAR: How This Conflict May Decide The
Future
Of Europe-- And The Obama Administration
From the September 8th, 2010 Washington
Times:
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
Why Were The Duma Killers Allowed To Go Free?
From the September 12th, 2010 Daily
Telegraph:
U.N. OBSERVERS REPORT RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN CEASEFIRE
CONTINUING TO HOLD
2 RUSSIAN GOVT. DIVISIONS DEPLOYED IN OFFENSIVE TO
RETAKE MAGADAN FROM NRPM REBELS
From the September 13th, 2010 broadcast of Chris
Matthews’ Hardball:
The Obama administration is getting major heat from the GOP
for not taking a tougher stance on the Medvedev government’s alleged
mistreatment of NRPM guerrillas who’ve been captured by Russian regular army
troops since the current civil war in Russia began back in May...
From the September 15th, 2010 New York Post:
STUBBORN AS A (MOSCOW) MULE
Russian regular forces refusing to abandon fight to retake
Magadan despite heavy casualties
From the September 18th, 2010 Boston Globe:
FORMER RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL CALLS FOR A
RETRIAL IN ‘DUMA MURDER’ CASE
Alleges crucial evidence of defendants’ guilt suppressed
From the September 19th, 2010 broadcast of the
Russian TV news show Vremya:
President Medvedev will address the nation tonight on the
situation in the
Krasnodar area...
From the September 20th, 2010 Sydney Morning
Herald:
MEDVEDEV ASSERTS KRASNODAR STILL UNDER KREMLIN CONTROL
Disputes CNN Reports City Is In NRPM Hands
From the September 22nd, 2010 New York Times:
CIA East Europe Analysts Say Krasnodar Has Fallen
To NRPM Insurgents
From the September 23rd, 2010 broadcast of The
CBS Evening News:
Domestic critics of
current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev are calling for his resignation
tonight in the wake of the fall yesterday of the city of Krasnodar to NRPM
guerrillas. Medvedev is being widely accused of deceiving the Russian people
about the situation in Krasnodar during the month-long confrontation between
the rebels and the Russian regular army...
From the September 27th, 2010 broadcast of CBC
News At Six:
Just four and a half days after the NRPM rebel army took
control of Krasnodar from the Russian government, it appears to be on the
brink of losing that control back to government troops. As the cell phone
camera pictures we’re showing you right now illustrate, Russian regular army
units have broken through rebel defenses on the outer edge of the city and are
now surrounding the main NRPM local command post in the eastern sections of
the inner city....
From the September 29th, 2010 San Francisco
Examiner:
RUSSIAN REGULAR TROOPS CLOSING IN ON LAST REMAINING
NRPM STRONGPOINT IN KRASNODAR
From the book Moscow Winter: The NRPM And The Fall Of
The Medvedev Government, copyright 2024 Yale University Press:
At the time the Russian government army retook Krasnodar
from the NRPM it seemed like the Medvedev government had dealt a serious if
not fatal blow to the rebels’ cause, but as Medvedev would later find out to
his dismay the insurgents didn’t give up so easily....
To Be Continued
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