Posted on 02/27/2015 3:32:35 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
MOSCOW — A prominent Russian opposition leader, Boris Y. Nemtsov, was shot dead in central Moscow late Friday night within sight of the Kremlin walls.
The murder of Mr. Nemtsov, 55, a first deputy prime minister under Boris N. Yeltsin who later helped organize opposition demonstrations against President Vladimir V. Putin, was confirmed by Russia’s Interior Ministry shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.
A smooth-talking and worldly man who spoke accented but near-perfect English, Mr. Nemtsov rose to prominence as the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and became a vice premier in the late 1990s, during the last years of Mr. Yeltsin’s presidency.
The attack came less than two days before Mr. Nemtsov was to lead another mass rally against Mr. Putin. The rally’s organizers put out a statement of purpose earlier denouncing Mr. Putin for the country’s growing economic crisis and its part in the war in Ukraine. . .
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I’m sure Vlad is just devastated.
Sorry dictator in the Kremlin did this. Can’t believe it, happened right next to the Kremlin.
Read up on that spy Litvenenko and all the stuff he had come out with about the criminal enterprise in Moscow.
In other words Vlady cleaning up loose end Godfather 1 style
Guess they “Aired” out their differences.
Coming to a Presidential Election near you if Hilary wins the presidency.
Russia is a mafia run state, Vlad’s mafia, that is.
Why can’t it be Putin next time?
I’m sure there will be a full investigation and Putin’s other political opponent will be put in jail for it.
I’ve kept up with this some, one opposition leader was jailed last year, I think this is a different one. So that in itself says something.
Amazing! Whole 22 minutes and no posts from the Putin’s brigade on FR, yet. Guess they haven’ got their talking points.
Yep, Navalny is the name of an opposition leader who got a mild 15 day jail term: http://www.euronews.com/2015/02/27/russian-court-uphelds-navalny-prison-sentence/ Still says something.
As if it is not clear what Putin & his cronies are all about... Once KGB, always KGB...
I imagine the Nazi credentials for Mr. Nemtsov are being created first... /s
I expect to see something along the lines: he was a fascist, promoted homosexual agenda, sorosoid, supported the Ukrainian Nazis, got funding from the CIA and the Gay-ropean Union, etc.
They are already on another thread.
Implying it was Ukrainians who did it.
I really hate the Putinistas.
(eye roll)
That figures, part of Vlad’s so called hybrid war.
In other words, he supported Obama’s policies?
No worries, Putin is going to take "personal control" of the investigation:
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the president would take the investigation into Nemtsov’s death under “personal control”, and that he believed the killing to be a provocation.
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