Alemaobaiano,
You've kept a good lookout! I wasn't able to find the weekend news reference you mention but, based only on your succinct synopsis, one might smell a few red herrings being dragged across the chain of events, nearly a fortnight after the fact.
Ask yourself, are clandestine radios really news? The issue of their blanketing essential frequencies has been around for quite a few years.
Notams re work in progress at GRU, one wonders how that could possibly have influenced the outcome.
Think you'll probably agree that, bearing above points in mind, there is some embarassed
pr ass-covering underway
I'm far from a conspiracy theorist but, you know, friends will be friends and I would probably do the same myself. But it doesn't really wash, does it.