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:'''CNN Reporter [[W:Richard Valeriani|Richard Valeriani]]''': This is Richard Valeriani reporting live for [[w:CNN|CNN]] from the [[w:French aircraft carrier Foch|French aircraft carrier ''Foch'']] somewhere in the Mediterranean. Six days ago, as the rebellion in Chechnya spread to the neighboring Caucasus republics, the Russian president ordered massive bombing strikes against rebel positions around Rutul and Belokany. Appalled at the loss of human life, the [[w:Bill Clinton|President of the United States]] joined by the French president and the British prime minister suspended all foreign aid to Russia. Ultranationalist leader Vladimir Radchenko denounced the U.S. Pressure as an act of war against the Russian Republic and Russian sovereignty. Denouncing his own president as a U.S. Puppet, he called on the Russian people to join him in revolt. He said, "This brutish and hypocritical American intervention will ''not'' go unanswered." On Tuesday, at 10:00 in the morning, Moscow time, the Russian parliament was suspended and martial law was declared. With the government in crisis, the Russian Republic was entering into what can only be described...as a state of civil war. Then yesterday at dawn, Radchenko and rebel forces seized the region around Vladivostok, including a naval base and a nuclear missile base housing Russian ICBMs. As regular Russian military forces move in to encircle Radchenko, allied military forces are in a state of high alert. These French planes taking off behind me have been deployed near the Caucasus since the beginning of the crisis, and a crisis which started in the Caucasus has now spread to the Far East, and appears to be turning into the worst standoff, since the [[w:Cuban Missile Crisis|Cuban Missile Crisis]]. This is Richard Valeriani reporting live for CNN from the French aircraft carrier Foch, somewhere in the Mediterranean.