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Not What Your Country Can Do For You:
The Third Russian Revolution
By Chris Oakley
Part 9
From the March 1st, 2011 Daily
Mail:
KREMLIN DEEMS COL. KAZANOV’S DEATH A SUICIDE
Disputes Allegations Accused NRPM Sympathizer Was
Murdered By FSB
From the March 2nd, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Two Russian army choppers have been shot down
over Lake Baikal by what were apparently shoulder-fired surface-to-air
missiles. According to official Russian defense ministry sources, the
helicopters were engaged in an attack on suspected NRPM training camps in the
Baikal region...
From the March 4th, 2011 Montreal
Gazette:
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SKEPTICAL OF MOSCOW
SUICIDE CLAIMS
IN KAZANOV CASE
From the March 7th, 2011 San
Francisco Examiner:
U.N. PANEL ON KHABAROVSK MASSACRES ACCUSES
MEDVEDEV OF INTERFERING
WITH ITS INQUIRIES
Three Investigators Barred From Entering Russia
From the March 9th, 2011 broadcast of
Today:
A suspected NRPM outpost in the Lake Baikal
region has been destroyed in a pre-dawn bombing raid by Russian air force
jets....
From the March 10th, 2011 New York
Times:
DUMA IN SPECIAL SESSION TO DEBATE CREATION OF
INDEPENDENT
COMMISSION TO PROBE CHELYABINSK P.O.W. ABUSE
CHARGES
From the March 12th, 2011 broadcast of
BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:
After two days of intense debate, the Russian
Duma has formally approved a bill establishing an independent commission to
inquire into the suspected abuse of captured NRPM guerrillas being detained in
Russian government prisons....
From the March 13th, 2011 Moscow
News:
European Union Criticizes Government’s Refusal To
Co-operate With U.N. Probe
Of Khabarovsk Massacres
From the March 15th, 2011 New York
Daily News:
ASTRA-CON JOB?
White House questioning official Kremlin account
of Astrakhan firefight
From a broadcast of NBC Nightly News
that same day:
The Kremlin is reacting with outrage tonight to
suggestions from the White House that the official Russian government account
of yesterday’s firefight between regular army units and NRPM guerrillas near
the city of Astrakhan may not have been fully accurate....
From the March 17th, 2011
Washington Post:
MEDVEDEV DEFENDS VERACITY OF OFFICIAL KREMLIN
REPORT ON
ASTRAKHAN FIREFIGHT
Accuses Obama Administration Of Trying To
Embarrass Moscow;
Threatens To Pull Out Of Next Month’s European
Security Summit
From a story posted at BBC.co.uk on March 18th,
2011:
In what may prove to be the bloodiest battle yet
of the nearly ten-month-old Russian civil war between the Medvedev government
and the NRPM rebel forces, two full divisions of government troops are
engaging what is reported be a rather sizable insurgent force near the West
Siberian city of Omsk...
From the March 20th, 2011 Daily
Mail:
RAIN,
COLD SAID TO BE HAMPERING COMBAT OPERATIONS ON BOTH SIDES
AT OMSK
From the March 22nd, 2011 broadcast of
Nine News:
There is growing concern tonight at the Russian
army general staff headquarters in Moscow over the stalemate in government
forces’ four-day-old battle to eliminate a pocket of NRPM guerillas near the
city of Omsk....
From the March 25th, 2011 broadcast of
Good Morning America:
The NRPM is claiming victory this morning in its
week-long fight with Russian regular army units for control of the Siberian
city of Omsk...
From the 2026 BBC documentary The Third
Russian Revolution FifteenYears On:
In terms of importance, the fight for Omsk was
unquestionably one of the NRPM insurgency’s most critical operations during
the five years that it fought to topple the Medvedev regime. Had Russian
government forces won, it might have spelled the end of the uprising-- it
certainly would have set the insurgents’ cause back months or even years...
From the March 29th, 2011
Washington Post:
MOSCOW REPEATS THREAT TO PULL OUT OF VIENNA
SECURITY SUMMIT
Obama accused by Kremlin of trying to stir up
anti-Russian sentiment among EU member nations
From the March 31st, 2011 San
Francisco Examiner:
MEDVEDEV RELENTS, SAYS HE WILL ATTEND VIENNA
SUMMIT
NRPM sympathizers vow massive protest of Russian
president’s visit
From the April 3rd, 2011 broadcast of
CBC News At Six:
When current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev
arrives in Vienna this coming Thursday for the start of a European security
and anti-terrorism summit at which President Obama is also expected to be in
attendance, he will be accompanied by one of the largest security details ever
assigned to a Russian leader for an overseas visit. The move comes after a
threat against Medvedev’s life was e-mailed to Viennese police officials and
to the Russian embassy in Vienna late last night....
From the April 7th, 2011 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News:
Today Austrian sympathizers with the NRPM
rebellion in Russian made good on their promise to mount a huge protest of
current Russian president Dmitri Medvedev’s presence in Vienna for this week’s
European security summit. Even as Medvedev’s personal plane was touching down
at Vienna International Airport, thousands of demonstrators marched near the
Russian embassy in the Austrian capital’s Landstrasse district waving banners
and chanting pro-NRPM slogans....
From a story posted at Foxnews.com on April 10th,
2011:
BREAKING NEWS--A.P. REPORTS POSSIBLE EXPLOSION OR
FIRE AT RUSSIAN
EMBASSY IN VIENNA
To Be Continued
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