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Dueling Counter-Demonstrations Turn Violent, Possible Fatalities
Bulava and PDPD Demonstrations Descend into Armed Clash

Radagora- Amidst an already tense political environment in the run-up to December's General Elections, violence erupted between armed activists of the far-right Bulava movement and Marxist PDPD (Popular Movement for Direct Action) demonstrators in the nation's capital earlier today. At least a dozen have been seriously injured and reports indicate that as many as 5 fatalities are possible, though no official confirmation or denial has been issued as of the time of publication. Some scuffles were expected beforehand as a result of the radically opposing nature of the political ideologies involved with the two demonstrations, and city leadership had police presence would be heavy in and around Insurrection Memorial Plaza, likely the only reason that the carnage was not able to escalate to far more serious levels.
As many as 20,000 demonstrators were involved in the legally and properly certified demonstrations today, with Bulava representatives having made arrangements for their demonstrations as far back as July. PDPD responded in kind by declaring intentions to conduct their own counter-demonstration once publicity for the original event began to rise, leading many to speculate that some form of confrontation was inevitable. Though it is not yet clear where, or exactly when the violence began, the first reports to and from police went out at 1:37 pm, and the last report available to the media - confirmation that at least one armed PDPD demonstrator had been "incapacitated" went out over an unsecured channel at 1:45 pm.
Eye witness accounts and observation on the ground from a number of journalists indicate that the bulk of both demonstrations had been fully dispersed, with "several dozen" individuals in custody according to the same accounts and per verification by the Mayor's Office.
The Mayor's Office and Metropolitan Police Command will be holding a press conference to provide clarification on the event before noon tomorrow, until which time Insurrection Memorial Plaza is to remain closed to the public. Bulava demonstration organizers have declined to comment until after the press conference, and no PDPD officials or candidates could be reached for comment.


OTHER HEADLINES:

• Popular tourist attraction "The Gallery of Nod," featuring cave paintings estimated to be at least 25,000 years old have reopened to the public in Novy Tibor after extensive remodeling.
• Renovation and construction work on and around the St. Yerofey Memorial Bridge nearing completion, projected to alleviate commute time woes between the north-bank's downtown Radagora and the south's valley and already busy road to Byelonovo.
• Representatives of the Vyhoric Orthodox Patriarchate indicate that a new Holy Sobor could be called as early as the New Year, to discuss the apparent revival of numerous historical "obstacles" for the harmony of Chernovic and Ostrovak societies today.
• Four Arrety heathen men arrested in connection to the nightclub fire in Severmoysky that claimed the lives of 38 club-goers at the popular establishment, frequented by locals and tourists alike.

 

[Kadikistani Union]

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Office of the People's Commissariat for External Affairs​

We are shocked and appalled of the recent happenings in neighbouring Chernovy. It is up to the national security forces to prevent demonstrations or any form of manifestation from turning into deadly street brawls. Sadly we must recognize, due to this particular event, that the Chernovic state is unable or even unwilling to separate both sides with deadly consequence. We hope that this incident will receive the investigation it deserves and those responsible are disciplined. Last but definitely not least, we wish to share our condolences to the friends and family of the respective victims for their loss while hoping for a speedy recovery for those innocently harmed.

Signed,
Petar Kujundzic
People's Commissar for External Affairs
Democratic Socialist Republic of

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Great Secretariat of the Empire
Public Statement​

Christoupolis, the 7th of November of the Year of our Lord MMXVII
To whom it may concern,

The Southern Tiburan Empire would like to express it most sincere condolences to the families of all those killed or injured during these most repugnant clashes in Chernovic. It is the hope of His Imperial Majesty's Government that peace and order might return to the aforementioned country as soon as possible, and that the authorities of said land do everything in their power to contain radicals on either side of the political spectrum, who would seek to violate the rights and harm the persons of Chernovic's law-abiding citizens.

Signed and sealed,

Geōrgios Aurēliou Kantakouzēnos

Great Secretary of the Empire
Patrician Nobelissimus

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Radagora Metropolitan Police Department
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Radagora, Radagora-Old Vyhor 93340
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Yerofey Semyenov, Chief of Police

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For Immediate Release
Oktober 26, 7525/November 8 2017

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On behalf of the Radagora Metropolitan Police Department and all the people of our nation's capital, it is my pleasure to thank the Peoples' Commissariat for External Affairs and our neighbors and friends in Kadikistan at large for these words of concern in our great city's hour of distress. I must likewise express our disagreement with the assessment of the facts at hand as presented by the Commissariat as neither this Department, nor any other office in service to the city or people of Radagora perceive any of the events related to or subsequently stemming from the "Insurrection Memorial Plaza Incident" to be related to any sort of willingness or unwillingness to exert any sort of coercive force on the freely assembled citizenry of the Sovereignty for these or any reasons. It is the pleasure, privilege and moral obligation of every free person of this nation, the Sovereignty of Chernovy, to gather how, in what numbers, and whenever they please - so long as it does not provide a clear and direct threat to the safety of the citizenry, their property or vital infrastructure - and provided the proper municipal permissions have been granted in this case, and any other such involving more than 1000 people. As there has been no recent precedence for politically motivated violence within Chernovy, even between parties with such widely divergent and theoretically opposed ideologies as Bulava and PDPD (the latter expressing values more closely aligned with those of Kadikistan itself) there was and could not have been any expectation of violence between the two demonstrations. As a result of our investigations of this incident, we believe that the key factor in motivating the violence was, in point of fact, a power struggle between the so-called "Anarcho-Intersectionalist-Post-Modernist" and "Vanguardist-Popular Action" wings of the PDPD. Though we have no reason to believe that any form of foreign involvement was at play in causing this regrettable instance of violence, rest assured that the Peoples Commissariat for External Affairs will be contacted immediately should it prove to be necessary, for whatever reason.

Chief of Police
Yerofey Semyenov
Radagora Metropolitan Police Department
(252) 760-2339


((OOC: I've back dated this to the date after your response, apologies for the lateness of my own.))

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Geōrgios Aurēliou Kantakouzēnos​

Great Secretary of the Empire
Patrician Nobelissimus

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Yerofey Semyenov, Chief of Police

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For Immediate Release
Oktober 26, 7525/November 8 2017

On behalf of the Radagora Metropolitan Police Department and all the people of our nation's capital, I thank you for these kind words in our time of mourning. This event has shocked me, and my colleagues within law enforcement and local governance as much as it has the international community, such behavior is completely counter to the traditional values of the Sovereignty. Our investigations have produced a number of interesting leads, though I will refrain from saying more on this matter now for the sake of the integrity of these cases and the Sanctity of Law in the Sovereignty of Chernovy. May you and yours be kept in the grace of our Lord and Redeemer, Jesus Christ forever -

Chief of Police
Yerofey Semyenov
Radagora Metropolitan Police Department
(252) 760-2339



((OOC: As noted above, I've back-dated this to make more sense in relation to your comment - the for which I thank you most heartily. Replies should be more quickly forthcoming in the future.))

 

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Вигорическая лоза
The Vyhoric Vine
Виноград Vinograd
13 ноября 7525 года из Великого Потопа
November 13, 7525 from the Great Flood



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The Fifteenth Regency of the Sovereignty Continues to Exemplify Our Best Virtues
Amid the Ongoing Tragedy of Human Trafficking and Bureaucratic Corruption and the Developing Ostrovak Crisis, the Krutop Regency has Risen to Every Challenge


"Never before in my time in political office have I seen the like, in the gravity of the events in motions as we have witnessed in these past weeks," seems to be a common sentiment among the political class of Radagora in the past three weeks, but as uttered by His Excellency, Radomer Krutop, President of the 15th Regency Council of the Sovereignty of Chernovy - the words carry a bit more [gravity] indeed. The past four months have seen the political landscape of the Sovereignty wracked with scandal after scandal, largely stemming from the ongoing tragedy of human trafficking, and international issue with specifically Chernovic implications and impacts.

Though not particularly related, the violence in the Insurrection Memorial Plaza between our most idly misguided, albeit not entirely incorrectly zealous, youth and the usual suspects of the dregs of our society - the godless Marxists of the PDPD can be seen as a sort of culmination of this cycle of domestic slow-burn, avoiding the lingering and simmering issues of most serious note (such as the Arrety petrol cases or apparent radicalization of an alarming number of Edisani Manichean clergy) before events across The Gulf necessitate a completely international pivot.

The sudden turmoil in Ostrograd flung both markets into a tailspin, and forced Regent Krutop to declare a state of highest readiness for a large portion of the Gulf military districts (and a rumored extension of service in 'national maritime integrity operations' already underway with League naval forces), as well as issuing a directive that all Chernoves in Ostrovakia should shelter in place for the duration of the crisis "until the rule of law had been reestablished within the League to the satisfaction of our constitutional binding legal requirements." The latter directive has since been eased to allow commerce to return to normal as soon as possible, rather clearly demonstrating Krutop's confidence in Lord Admiral Pyotor Orlov.

At a brief stop-over for a visit to the Vinograd Convention Center, the Regent shared these and other remarks, including a clear reaffirmation of his intention to seek a second, and presumably final term in office as the President of the Regency Council. If successful, this would make him the first Regent to do so in fifteen years - but if he is able to maintain the confidence and certainty that has steered him through the various hurdles of the past year soundly thus far, it is not difficult to imagine the Sovereignty giving him another mandate.


Episkop Zakhar Efremofski,
Deaconate of Lower East Vinograd

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ChernoPetrol Hostage Crisis/Strike Entering 9th Day
Drugny*, Arrety Autonomous Okrug - The now more than week long ChernoPetrol hostage crisis and general strike among workers for the petrochemical firm's numerous subsidiary holdings (under the local Arrety Petrol) in the far-northern Autonomous Okrug continues and is no closer to a peaceful and mutually acceptable resolution "...than this mess was on the first day," according to Governor Yegor Posenyevsky.

OTSN, or Special Tactical Unit, negotiators arrived at the site of the main facility on the outskirts of the okrug's capital earlier today, at the request of Gov. Posenyevsky, but seem thus far to have made precious little headway in securing the release of the hostages, much less a return to work for the [entirely local] workforce. Bringing its own not inconsiderable resources as one of the nation's largest public companies to bear, ChernoPetrol has flown in dozens of private consultants and security specialists are on hand as well, most notably Terenty Korolevsky, author and professor of criminal science at the Sovereignty's Southern Applied and Theoretical Studies Institute at the University of Venkleskoye.

With losses soaring to just under a truly staggering ฿500,000,000 per day that these facilities, perhaps the most productive such in the whole of the Sovereignty, are not in operation, investors -foremost among them primary stock holder Arkady Rauhan - are placing quite a bit of pressure on the government to see this incident resolved as quickly and in as cost effective a manner as possible...(continue reading)


Unlicensed Demonstration Disbursed Near Kadikistani Embassy, AnComs to Blame
Radagora, Capital Administration District - Converging on Kir Krasnyy Prospekt in the minutes just after noon and at the height of downtown Radagora's notorious lunch-hour traffic, large numbers of self-described 'Anarcho-Communists' attempted to stage an unlicensed - and ultimately illegal - demonstration outside of the People's Federal Socialist Republics of Kadikistan, but were dispersed by the timely intervention of Metropolitan Police and Capital-Zone Special Security teams.

Ostensibly protesting the ongoing Rurikgrad Pact war-games in the Kalahari Sea, it seems far more likely that these disaffected, often bored and at times criminally inclined Anarcho-Communists were simply lashing out at the perceived source of the influence and wherewithal that allowed their rivals to retain control of the traditionally Marxist-Leninovist PDPD. No spokesperson has yet to be identified in relation to this illegally disruptive and unlicensed gathering, and it is very likely that the topic will remain tightly controlled for some time to come, given the sensitively diplomatic nature of the averted incident, as well as General Elections two weeks from today.

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*Drugny is the Chernovic language term for the Arrety capital Drugenai

 

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We commend the safety and security authorities, more specifically the Radagora Capital-Zone Special Security and the Metropolitan Police, for their swift and professional reaction upon the illegal mobilization that was taking place outside of the Kadikistani embassy in Chernovic. Indeed if it wasn't for the quick and efficient reaction of the Chernovic security forces the situation might have escalated as the increasingly hostile crowd was swelling and blankets were thrown over the initial safety fence so demonstrators could by-pass the barbed wire. These self-proclaimed 'Anarcho-Communists' once again confirm the righteousness of Nikolai Leninov's thesis on class struggle which states that any and all gauchist, reactionary or deviationist marxist-oriented tendencies must be eradicated so that the proletariat can be guided in the right direction by the Marxist-Leninovist vanguard. One can not compromise or even cooperate with misguided and outright malicious vulgarisations of Marxism as a revolution can never succeed if the one true path is not followed without question. Brainwashed youth must be reclaimed into the disciplined ranks of the PDPD and the leadership of these 'AnComs' should face trial before a fair court for disrupting the peace and allowing for an urban attack to take place against Kadikistani sovereign soil.

Signed,
Petar Kujundzic
People's Commissar for External Affairs
People's Federal Socialist Republics of

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Radagora Metropolitan Police Department
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Radagora, Radagora-Old Vyhor 93340
Phone (252) 760-2334
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Yerofey Semyenov, Chief of Police

For Immediate Delivery
28 November, 7525/12 December, 2017


I must once more offer my personal thanks to our friends and colleagues in the Office of the People's Commissariat for External Affairs, and the People's Federal Socialist Republics of Kadikistan as a whole for the confidence in our immediate response to this unacceptable development in what should have, and for the part of the PDPD itself, has been a professionally - and privately - handled audit of leadership and party membership. For reasons that are regrettably more than familiar to us all at this point, so-called "Anarcho-Communist" movements often tend to attract elements of society that are already personally and irretrievably committed to the destruction of society as a whole - the most criminally nihilistic individuals in Chernovic society in my own personal experience. In the case of those misguided youths not entirely at fault in the development and actualization of this criminal plot, and as per the legal code of the Sovereignty of Chernovy, rehabilitation and reintroduction to wider society will indeed be the course of action.

There are also a certain element within this group that we now have little to no expectation for the possibility of rehabilitation. Further investigation has revealed ties to illicit traffic, human trafficking (including minors), arms smuggling and further conspiracies to commit murder. Upon conviction for these most heinous crimes, the legal code of the Sovereignty has, and very likely always will, demand the ultimate price. Evidence pertinent to the security and wellness of the People's Federal Socialist Republics will be forthcoming and transmitted through suitably encrypted diplomatic channels.


Chief of Police
Yerofey Semyenov
Radagora Metropolitan Police Department
(252) 760-2339

 

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Sovereignty Defense
'Winter 7526 Joint-Exercise' Confirmed for Mid-January
Venkleskoye, Peski Oblast - The Sovereignty Naval Service Press Office issued a brief statement over the weekend confirming plans to move forward with the biennial Sovereignty-League Armed Forces Exercises, with the honor of hosting this year falling to Chernovy.

According to the statement issued by Rear Admiral Kambiz Yanushek's [Press] Office, the exercises are to be conducted almost entirely on or in the waters directly adjacent to the Dmandrakand Peninsula, and the ruined gord of Dmandrakand itself. Once capital of the mighty Idrisid Malakate*, Dmandrakand was partly razed and totally evacuated in the wake of the brutality of the First Insurrection of the 1954-1959, with nearly two million Idrisid and Edisani Muslims subject to mandatory relocation to the north and northeastern portions of Chernovy, only newly constituted as the Sovereignty.

This will be the first such exercise at Dmandrakand for which the Armed Forces of the Sovereignty will be able to field all of its most modern, post-millennial hardware innovations and updates - most prominently the Kanyuk 2 twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft, the MBT-6 'Chernyy Zubr' and the KSSV-03a1 (or Kissov) service assault rifle, chambered in the now well-known .262 caliber developed around the rifle in the late 90's by legendary Karsonov Arsenal technician Maksim Garvadov. Elements of...(continue reading)



* "Malakate," a term of ultimately Hebrew origin adapted to serve the (only recently converted, formerly Jewish) Idrisid Islamic dynasty (c. 1540's-1930s) - roughly equivalent to Malik, Shah or Sultan.

 

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In JOINT COMMITTEE, December 15 2017
a LETTER of ADDRESS by the PARLIAMENTARIANS of the​

ENGELLEXIAN REPUBLIC​

In the ENGELLEXIAN REPUBLIC PARLEMENT ASSEMBLED the FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOINT COMMITTEE,

The Foreign Affairs Joint Committee of the Engellexian Republic, having received humble recommendation to the Joint Committee by the Republic Naval Council, hopes the Sovereignty of Chernovy shall find the Engellexian Republic properly qualified and respectable to the greatest consideration of European neighbourliness in permitting the desires of the Republic Naval Council an honest and keen observation and examination of the fitness and sufficiency of the Sovereignty Naval Service, during the Winter 7526 Joint-Exercise adjacent to the Dmandrakand Peninsula.

The Engellexian Republic respects the sensitivity and is well minded to the nature of such exercises, and no requests are made without sincere considerations and due respect to our European friends and neighbours.

signed on Order and on Behalf of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee,

Lord Benjamin Boxer,
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee

 

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signed on Order and on Behalf of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee,

Lord Benjamin Boxer,
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee

OFFICE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY's NAVAL SERVICE COMMAND
SOVEREIGNTY BOLSHOY FLEET
CSK Tolstaya
(spd) Venkleskoye, Kabluk Oblast 99667-2

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Rear Admiral Kambiz Yanushek
COMMANDING OFFICER W/7526/J-E
CSK Tolstaya
c/o K-Fleet POST OFFICE
Venkleskoye, Kabluk


Having conferred with my own superiors unto the confirmation of my own inclination to immediately agree to your query, it is my personal honor and pleasure to accept the request of the Republic Naval Council in receiving any representative observers, Naval officers or personnel or further Parlementary Representatives from the Engellexian Republic for the Winter 7526 Joint-Exercise. As ever, the Sovereignty values the friendship and propriety of the Engellexian Republic in pursuit of matters pertaining to those most delicate affairs of state and security and for this you have my personal respect and thanks. Unto this end, the Sovereignty is willing and capable of adjusting schedule and OOB for portions of this exercise to accommodate the presence of a more substantial martial delegation, should the Republic Naval Council deem this within the realm of the possible and prudent.

It is singularly crucial to the best possible future for the world community of nations, and the perfection of the rightful order of those nations that nations such as the Chernovic Sovereignty, Ostrovak League and Engellexian Republic rigorously pursue the fitness and continued refinement of the mechanisms by which the defense and expansion of our mutual and respective national interests. With the warmest regards of this pen and Sovereignty,


Kambiz Yanushek
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Вигорическая лоза
The Vyhoric Vine
Виноград Vinograd
6 декабря 7525 года из Великого Потопа
December 6, 7525 from the Great Flood
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University Scientists Announce Discovery of Debris Field Left in Wake of '7014 Bolshoy Tsunami'
'Scattered Ruins Swept out to Sea from Staryy Kitezh After Natural Catastrophe 512 Yrs Ago '



Malenkiy Kitezh, Kitezh Oblast - Scientists from the Crown's University at Yarkobereg have announced a study promising to shed altogether new light on some of the most pervasive mysteries surrounding one of the greatest tragedies in Chernovy's long history, the now infamous 'Kitezh Deluge,' also known as the 'Tsunami of 7014.' A few days before the winter solstice of the year 7014 (1505), the Bolshoy Sea rose up to claim one of its most fearsome tolls, the city of Staryy Kitezh, at the time the greatest Yuzhnoslavian-controlled port on the Chernovic subcontinent - claiming the lives of nearly a quarter million of those living in and around the now largely fabled city in the terrible process.

Long regarded as one of the Jewels in the Crown of the Chernovic South-Coast, Malenkiy Kitezh - most often simply called Kitezh, is located some mile and a half further into the Yarko Estuary now, and well known for attracting huge crowds of native and foreign tourist throughout the Summer-Vacation Season, the seaside city is now home to more than a million permanent year-round residents, a 'truly exponential increase and inspirational rebound given the furious toll taken by the great tragedy that took place here,' in the words of Avdon Ilarionov PhD, senior researcher from Yarkobereg Uni involved in the breakthrough study.

Dr. Ilarionov echoed the general scientific consensus that the 7014 Tsunami was generated by a major earthquake, perhaps as large as 8.0 on modern scales, focused on the Pryamoyugol Fault that runs parallel with that portion of the Bolshoy Coast. Likely one of the largest such events to have struck the region in the era of human habitation, and certainly dwarfing any similar event to have transpired since the ascendancy of the Sovereignty, Dr. Ilarionov indicated that the true horror and power of this event can 'even now only scarcely be imagined.'

The residents of the city were not strangers to quakes or the tsunamis so often generated by oceanic seismic upheavals, and many were already waiting on the roofs of the towns tallest buildings when the force of the oncoming wave sucked the water back from the towns busy harbor. None were prepared for the size of the wave that rushed in not long thereafter, with some estimates indicating that it (the wave) may have been as high as 96 ft (29.3 meters) when it entered the mouth of the harbor. Due to the staggering size of the wave, nearly all of the ships still in the harbor were swept into the city - many onto the very roofs packed with the terrified residents of Old Kitezh. An estimated 40,000 buildings (combining estimates from the time and calculations from Yarkobereg Uni scientists), of which most were also homes, are estimated to have been utterly destroyed and largely swept back out to the Bolshoy as a result.

"The small towns and villages around the big city of Kitezh were even more dramatically impacted, having nothing of the seawall of Old Kitezh to even slightly lessen the impact of the blow," Lukyan Zinovyev, Dr. Ilarionov's senior assistant and post-graduate student at Yarkobereg, noted. Nearly 60,000 people died outside of the walls of the city, and the farmland that the region relied on was completely ruined from the flood of saltwater, just enough of which remained behind to permanently poison what had been very fertile cropland.

"The region's shoreline was permanently altered by the tsunami, as one can see from merely glancing at a map of the time before the wave, and today," Ilarionov notes, "with as much as a mile of the land eroded completely, and hundreds of thousands of tons of debris from the structures dotting that land swept out and down, nearly to the continental shelf."

Rumors of the debris field have persisted for some decades, since the advent of sonar-based fishing, and a number of artifacts have been dredged up in that time as well. In this case, ChernoPetrol surveyors came across an outcropping while scanning for petroleum or natural gas deposits in the often mineral rich area of the seafloor, and contacted Yarkobereg University with their findings not long after. Dr. Ilarionov believes the outcropping might well be a portion of the remains of the Great Lighthouse of Kitezh. One of the most famous and well-constructed buildings in the region at the time, and reported as having completely disappeared in the course of the tsunami, it seems that the lower portion of the structure remained largely whole as it was pulled into the depths by the wave's receding might.

Dr. Ilarionov was careful to say that he did not believe any similar such events awaited the South-Coast in the near future, "...we would have some indication that such an event was developing from our seismic monitors in the area, and would certainly be able to provide light-saving early warning to the people of the modern city of Little Kitezh."

 

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...having evaded the plotting murder of crows, the handsome tomcat spins on his pedestal triumphantly, placing a victorious paw on his preferred brand of canned food and roars - as if a lion...Another commercial hawking reprocessed bits that failed to make the grade for fast-food, you muse, as the abortion of cinematography finally fades from the screen and is immediately replaced with the familiar bold script that you've chosen to spend the latter portion of your evenings with for so long.

Абсалон Медиа Групп
Absalon Media Grupp
::NIGHTLY NEWS BULLETIN::
with Marya Morevna

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And with that, thankfully the intermission was over. Being in Korolevska, the ancient and former capital of the Vyhory, you watched AMG on the local channel of 22, and the growing churn of 24/7 media coverage suits the worldview that you have long held. While not so cosmopolitan as the modern capital, Radagora - or nearly so much as the Sovereignty's largest city and port, Venkleskoye - but still a place in a time where what was going on with things in the country and the world around it mattered very much to you and your professional life. It was no small favor then that Marya Morevna was as beautiful a newsperson as there was.

Combining much of what Chernovy and the world thought beautiful about its women from both sides of that great tapestry, the Slavian and Erroz, Morevna's clear and pale complexion was perfectly complimented by the tightly curled mass of silky black hair she typically wore pulled back and away from her face - and her piercing green eyes.

You lived alone save for your own handsome cat, sadly, even if you did live in Korolevska.

"Thank you for staying with us tonight, as we recap some of the top headlines from around the Sovereignty and Slavoyevropa today," Morevna shifts her gaze from one camera to another - and the screen shifts thereafter to stock footage of one of the Sovereignty's larger and better known 'Recognized Wilderness Preserves,' Ozero - or Lake - Zevayabezdna and Mount Chiykybriykyy in Sosug Oblast (and very near to its western border with the increasingly troubled Arrety Autonomous Okrug). "Teams from the Sovereignty Geological, Seismic & Volcanic Survey have been officially summoned by Sosug's Vyborshchik* Arshakuny to assess the cause of ongoing 'earthquake swarms' that appear to be centered on or immediately around the infamous Mt. Chiybriykyy volcano. Fears that the mountain could be recharging for an eruption similar to that which darkened skies for months in the winter of early 7324 (1817)." The screen shifts now to images of a highway, the ground beneath and the asphalt above having been obviously heaved about some truly awe-inspiring seismic force, rising and falling sharply like a washboard, with emergency response personnel standing about looking mildly dumbfounded themselves.

"While in Korolevska," the beautiful woman mentioning your city by name breaks you from the apocalyptic revelry the segment had sent you spiraling into, "...Church insiders suggest that the Winter Sobor may be close to submitting a name to Patriarch Nataniyel for confirmation as the new head of the Order of the Vine, Orthodox Christianity's eldest extant martial-monastic fraternity." The screen now displays footage taken at what was perhaps Korolevska's finest architectural marvel, the 'Blue and White Cathedral of Bozhiyey Materi - or the Mother of God,' near to the old College of the Crown and the old Chernovit Summer Palace itself. A long queue of black-robed, bearded grandfathers bearing the gleaming crimson 'Cavalry, or Patriarchal crosses' so characteristic of Vyhoric Orthodoxy were pictured smiling and nodding at the flashbulbs, half blind and slowly bleeding relevance in an ever more modern world. Or so you desperately wanted to believe. Morevna said a few more words about who the selection was likely to be, a former VDV chaplain that had seen uncharacteristically intense action during his tour - even if that had been during the Third Insurrection, nearly thirty years ago now.

The Order of the Vine had been fun to learn about in school, their ferocity in the face of overwhelming odds against the waves of Erroz grīw-bānvar and Qissarim manqüwday cavalry at the Battle of Slomannaya Doliny, or Broken Valleys. The Order of the Vine, the Black Fraternity and the Sons of the Eagle had purchased a future for the Vyhoric people with their blood that day, and it was rightly remembered as one of the most important moments during the Warring States Period, and the history of the Sovereignty as a whole...but that felt like it was where they belonged. The former and latter in any case at least, imagining a modern Chernovy without the Chernoye Bratsvo was next to impossible.

Whatever the case, Morevna had already moved on, despite the internal conflict between you and your still rather devout parents over the church playing out again and again. "...sident of the Fifteenth Regency Council, Radomer Krutop once more refused further commentary on the ongoing 'Christmas Crisis' developing primarily between the nations of Trivodnia, a traditional trade partner and nation with whom the Sovereignty has significant historical and cultural ties, and Ivar-aligned Farrago 'regime' of Crotobaltislavonia..." Stock footage of the Regent looking a little more worried than he might have liked played now, and Morevna continued, "Praising moves to deescalate tensions in the region by Archancellor Vogt of Bergenheim, among others, Regent Krutop maintained that the best and most honest position for the Sovereignty on this matter was to hold its current course, one shared by the League of Ostrovakia."

Perhaps somewhat out of place in the context of the story, or perhaps as intentionally jingoistic and provocative as it was intended - the brief segment was closed with a rush of imagery of the ongoing Winter Exercises in the south, a hyper-sonic Kanyuk fighter-bomber pounding mock emplacements in the ruined city of Dmandrakand as Ostrovak marines prepared a landing on a 'contested beach' while their Chernovic counterparts provided covering fire.

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* "Elector," term roughly equivalent to Governor in the modern Sovereignty of Chernovy.

 

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The Sovereign Observer

SPECIAL EDITION
27 December, 7525 since The Flood


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CATASTROPHE in Drugenai, death-toll climbs to 843 over the Christmas Holiday weekend, as the first of the memorials for the slain OTSN troopers held in their native Krutogradek, services performed jointly with the Mass of the Birth of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Regent Krutop has promised retribution and vigilance in the wake of this unparalleled tragedy, calling an emergency Regency Council 'crisis response' meeting this morning, upon resumption of normal business after the holiday. Arrests continue, and are reported to reach into the hundreds in and around the largest city in the Arrety Autonomous Okrug - as incidences of organized violence are likewise reported to be on a sharp incline. Sources close to the Regency report...(story continued on page 1A)

::Here is a rather overdone add for Zolotaya brend "blended-leaf" cigarillos, now in "infused or basic varieties." The implication of more successful instances of copulation (with the fairer sex) being a byproduct of the use of this product isn't explicitly stated - but the imagery is still pretty clear on the matter. This is a line renewed in the early 7500s, by the larger - ironically named and industry dominating - Verblyud Cigarette brand.::

HIGH COURT issues "Formal Rebuke" of Veche Secretary and Sobraniye Speaker, Rada at large as it approaches the third week beyond the traditional date upon which the two chief legislative officers have called General Elections. With scandal rocking three of the six largest political entities prominently active within Chernovy, most prominently the ideological split within the largely Ivar-aligned PDPD and the international scandal involving traffic of improper and/or underage persons embroiling leadership of the New Thinkers, the Ostrograd-Progressive and increasingly a relic of the 7480s and '90s. The Rebuke threatened further action, including censure should a date for General Elections not be set by the following Mon... (story continued on page 2)

::Advertisement for the upcoming release of the dramatization of the critically acclaimed novel "Remnants of a Former Splendor," the 7477 novel about a group of youthful friends reaching young-adulthood in the often bleak and inescapable landscape of post "Red Crusade" northwestern Chernovy, with most doomed to the often grueling conditions of the cobalt and/or salt mining industries that provided the only economic inertia in the oblast...::

FORMER CANDIDATE FOR REGENCY KILLED ATTEMPTING TO FLEE COUNTRY AFTER
a warrant for his, Evstasy Gubrylov's, arrest was issued by the Primary Directorate for Intelligence and Security, or GURB, in relation to "the trafficking of improper and/or underaged persons against the laws of the land, sea and furthermore against the will of all involved," including the conduct of such actions across international boundaries. Officials across the Straits have recognized the validity of the charges in the wake of former New Thinker Regency Candidate Gubrylov's abortive attempts... (story continued on page 3)