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 Russias 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. Yeltsins presidency.
The attack came less than two days before Mr. Nemtsov was to lead another mass rally against Mr. Putin. The rallys organizers put out a statement of purpose earlier denouncing Mr. Putin for the countrys growing economic crisis and its part in the war in Ukraine. . .
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Who is the Putin brigade?
If you’re not willing to post, would you FReepmail me? I’m curious to know.
Do we have a thread somewhere that tracks suspected trolls of various sorts? If not, we ought to.
Obama must be envious. So far he’s only been able to use been able to use the IRS against his enemies.
Like those billions of dollars he's taken under "personal control".
Hillary is jealous. “You mean I can do it right next to the White House and not all the way over in Fort Macy Park?
I guess I missed the /s tag. I doubt Nemtzov supported the Obama policies but that’s what will be trotted out as talking points, anyway. BTW, do you think that poor little Russia is being attacked by the mean Ukrainian Nazis? Just asking...
there are several posters that become very active as soon as anything negative is sais about mother Russia or Putin. I recognize the nicks but I am not sure I can correctly reproduce them without looking at them. I suggest that you visit the other thread about Nemtsov and see who is suggesting that the Ukrainians did that. And I am not aware of any thread that tracks the trolls. I often wonder why the administrator just zot the putinistas. At least the ones with IP addresses from Russia.
Coming to obamas’ Amerikastan soon!
Boris will be voting for Rahm Emanuel in the upcoming Chicago mayor runoff.
I will give you a clue. Anyone that does not support Putin is automatically labeled as loving Obama and his policies.
I don’t know all of them off the top or my head, I don’t pay attention to names, but they are clear.
On the first thread it is tcrlaf
5.56mm
Just curious if Moscow has the equivalent of Ft Marcy Park...
Gorky Park?
Shot him in the back, mob hit, cowardly hit. I said in the other thread, you’d think these guys should wear some camouflage vests. Sheesh.
He loves his Country
and he knows Judo. And he knows how to man handle the international media.
“Putins spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the president would take the investigation into Nemtsovs death under personal control, and that he believed the killing to be a provocation.”
That’s so 1937... (the murder of Kirov)
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