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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoris Nemtsov, Putin Foe, Is Shot Dead in Shadow of Kremlin
MOSCOW Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, was shot dead Friday evening in central Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of President Vladimir V. Putin.
The shooting, on a bridge near Red Square, under the towering domes of St. Basils Cathedral, ended Mr. Nemtsovs two-decade career as a champion of democratic reforms, beginning in the wake of the Soviet Unions collapse in 1991, and just days before he was to lead a rally to protest the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Putin condemned the killing, the Kremlin said, and Mr. Putins spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said the president would personally lead the investigation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-russian-opposition-leader-is-shot-dead.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0
uh huh
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)The investigations into the Syria Gouta chemical attack, Maidan Square snipers and shooting down of MH17 didn't seem to go anywhere.
ck4829
(35,687 posts)If a court could convict the man after his death, hey, why not this?
Case closed.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)who steals from the Russian people, who has amassed a whopping $200 BILLION dollar fortune for himself (under different names, as reported by a Dutch broker who worked with a Russian attorney - who was killed - on Dutch news yesterday - I LOVE the Internet!) is turning Russia back into his beloved USSR.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)This happens time and again with all big news stories.
What's worse is that the full story of many of these events is never revealed or revealed much later.
We still don't have the whole story behind 9/11, the Syrian Ghouta chemical attack, the Maidan Square snipers, the shooting down of MH17 etc.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)With his corrupt background that ties him in with so many deaths and "random" executions of people who dare speak against him while he controls Russia with an iron fist and has even gone so far as to annex a sovereign country, you'd still want to give this p.o.s. the benefit of the doubt??
Wow.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Probably not, because they haven't been released.
I'm not defending Putin.
I'm defending the principle of waiting for the facts instead of joining the bandwagon.
The same as I did before the Iraq War when we on DU were accused of being traitors and Saddam-lovers.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)at best, willful gullibility at worst.
Do you actually think people in positions of power who are able to get away with large-scale events like those, are EVER going to allow the cold hard facts to be made public?
You probably still believe that the Vietnam war was about fighting Communism, too, don't you? Or that any American war that was started was just to help spread democracy around the globe or to defend the United States from potential enemies.
I'm sorry, but I stopped believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny when I turned five years old.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)There are rivalries within the Putin rivals, it's not one group against Putin it's everyone for themselves.
Thinking like a Russian rival to Putin it makes some sense, make Putin look (even more) horrible, stifle your fellow rivals who weren't shot but will now be much more cautious, get rid of one fellow rival completely and clear the decks for further maneuvering on your own part less impeded by fellow rivals.
Putin would have been a little more subtle about it in my view, he's by no means stupid and he has to know how bad this makes him look and even to Putin appearances have at least some value.
On the other hand there is this..
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I love that picture.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)There are a lot of them and some are really funny..