Posted on 03/01/2015 12:59:42 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
On Friday evening, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, went on a prominent Moscow radio station to exhort his fellow citizens to come out to protest President Vladimir Putin’s policies. There would be a rally on Sunday, a spring march, to demonstrate against the deepening economic crisis and Russia’s involvement in Ukraine. The most prominent Russian opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny, had been put in jail for 15 days, which just happened to be long enough to keep him from attending the rally. Nemtsov, who was older and, by now, less influential, had handed out leaflets in the metro and encouraged people to come anyway.
After the radio show, on which Nemtsov warned that too much power in the hands of one man would “end in catastrophe,” he met Anna Duritskaya, his girlfriend of three years — and, as the police would later pointedly note, a citizen of Ukraine.
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Coming here in the very near future.
Almost as dangerous as being a journalist that reports the truth instead of what the Kremlin tells them to report
By afternoon, the government’s Investigative Committee had issued a statement saying it believed Nemtsov may have been killed by someone from his own opposition movement who wanted to create a martyr. There was even a suggestion that the assassination was connected to the Charlie Hebdo killings.
So the NY Times has a problem with this?
Why start now?
From the article about Nemtsov’s body “still lay on the ground, surrounded by laughing policemen.”
Ukraine women are hot as all get out.
I have a couple of girlfriends from there and they tell me apparently all of the men in places like Chelyabinsk are half dead from vodka and are impotent.
I’m retiring there, or at least plan to spend summers.
They leave the West behind.
Yep.
Adolph Putin strikes again.
Adolf Putin strikes again.
More like Nicholas Putin. His girlfriend is of Tatar origin, so he's no racist. His model is the Tsar, not the Fuhrer.
Been here....done that...Ft. Marcy Park!!!
Quick, another reset button!
Wow, a mod removed my post. Cool to have finally had that honor but a bit disappointed that the content was so mild.
Georgia’s always on my mind.
The Assassination of Boris Nemtsov: Kremlin’s Biggest Critic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM04zNbsaJg#t=25
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