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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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