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Prominent Politician And Putin Critic Shot To Death In Moscow; "Shocked" John Kerry Urges Russia To Bring Justice

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Update: John Kerry has decided to comment:

 

Updates from Interfax:

  • PUTIN TAKES NEMTSOV MURDER UNDER PERSONAL CONTROL - PESKOV
  • BORIS NEMTSOV'S KILLING COULD BE ACT OF PROVOCATION, COMMITTED IN THE RUN-UP TO OPPOSITION MARCH SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 1 - SOURCE
  • CRIMINAL CASE OPENED INTO BORIS NEMTSOV'S KILLING - RUSSIAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE SPOKESMAN MARKIN
  • NEMTSOV'S DEATH APPEARS TO BE CONTRACT KILLING - SOURCE
  • INVESTIGATORS QUESTIONING WITNESSES TO NEMTSOV'S MURDER, CAREFULLY EXAMINING CRIME SCENE - INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE SPOKESMAN MARKIN
  • AT LEAST SEVEN SHOTS FIRED AT BORIS NEMTSOV FROM CAR PASSING BY - RUSSIAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE SPOKESMAN MARKIN

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Just nine hours after tweeting "Putin annexed Crimea and is now handing over Siberia to the Chinese," and three ours after calling for a "Russian Spring" march, prominent Vladimir Putin critic and former deputy prime minister (in March 1997 Nemtsov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, with special responsibility for reform of the energy sector), Boris Nemtsov, was killed in the center of Moscow.

 As The BBC notes, the Russian opposition politician and former deputy PM was shot to death on a Moscow street. Life News is reporting he was shot in the chest four times on a street very close to Red Square.

 

Nemtsov's last 2 tweets today...

The scene of the murder:

As Life News reports,

Late on the Friday night in downtown Moscow on Vasilevsky Spusk was killed prominent politician Boris Nemtsov.

 

According to preliminary data, the killer shot four times at the 55-year-old politician and fled the scene. The opposition leader died on the scene of the shooting.

 

The death of the politician was confirmed by his colleague from the "Republican Party of Russia - People's Freedom Party" Ilya Yashin.

 

"Nemtsov was shot. He's dead - Yashin wrote on his page on "Facebook".

 

Boris Nemtsov was one of the founders and leaders of the "Solidarity" party, co-chairman of a political party RPR-Parnassus, as well as a member of the Coordination Council of Russian opposition

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The question now: who did it - a retaliation or a provocation, and if so - who is behind it and why? And of course - how will PUtin respond? 

One thing is certain: the full weight of the western media will fall like a ton of bricks on Putin and on what has already been described as Russia's descent "into darkness." 

More sanctions are almost certainly imminent, as is the escalation over Syria and the Ukraine conflict.

Live feed from the scene of the murder:

 

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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 10:42 | 5839221 therearetoomany...
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From the 'front lines' - this is what those in Russia are thinking about the murder....Putin had nothing to gain from this murder.   Some other country did....

For what it's worth...

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/did-us-murder-boris-nemstov-imminen...

 

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:00 | 5839410 HowdyDoody
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Nemtsov was nothing in Russia. Actually, less than nothing given his support for the ethnic cleansing of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. This is all for show in the western media. These psychopaths are desperate for public approval of their war mongering.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 10:42 | 5839223 Anunnaki
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Why after bringing force to bear (no pun) on the Rebels after they consolidated their gains and ceasefire holding would anyone connected to Putin greenlight something so provocative.

It makes zero sense from a guy who has been one step ahead of Obunghole and Lurch Kerry with every single move he has made in the lead up to war

Bullshitsky

Either way, let's get ready to rumble! It's on

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 10:45 | 5839231 Anunnaki
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JUly = MH17
Feb = Nemtsov

How many people will Obama murder to preserve American Hegemony?

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:11 | 5839298 HowdyDoody
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Albright said the death of 500,000 Iraqi's was a price worth paying. My guess is that any number will do, as long as the 1% are not affected or harmed.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:06 | 5839287 HowdyDoody
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The most fitting photograph of the Nemtsov sacrifice,

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/hugo_morales/71700898/36455/36455_origina...

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:10 | 5839291 HowdyDoody
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The reason for the murder location is now clear. The CIA stooges will hold a protest, with or without permission from the Moscow mayor, that will be the basis for a Russian Maidan directly opposite the Kremlin.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:11 | 5839297 dexter_morgan
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Looks like somebody is looking to get himself suicided. If true though, would explain some things.....

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/02/former-breitbart-reporter-why-did-obam...

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:14 | 5839306 sam site
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Funny that, "three hours after calling for a Russian Spring" Nemtsov is now a martyr.  This has CIA fingerprints all over it to foment a russian uprising against Putin. 

The western Jesuit, Masonic and Zionist oligarchs are desperate to destroy Putin as their global domination is threatened by Russia and the emerging BRICS.

It didn't take oligarch stoog Kerry long to spew his usual Putin hate speech.  I can't believe I voted for that f*kn Moron.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:35 | 5839347 DutchBoy2015
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Putin is actually a moderate.  Lots of Putins' opponents would like to roll over Kiev.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:39 | 5839356 DutchBoy2015
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I voted for that cocksucker in 2004,.   Choice between Bush the Chimp and that horseface bastard.

REnounced last year so no more voting in US elections. its all BULLSHIT

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:15 | 5839307 DutchBoy2015
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EVeryone likes to bash the French as being cowards but do any of you know about the ''The Bastille''?  Seems like the Americans are the true cowards.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:22 | 5839316 mendolover
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Please don't lump all of the Americans in with the cowards they elect.  Thank you.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:28 | 5839683 The Wedge
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Cowards, no. Historical idiots yes. There fixed it for you.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:29 | 5839330 nixy
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Tyler..... cant see some of the posts...

 

http://imgur.com/Iw1oWgt

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:30 | 5839333 Anunnaki
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Does Lemonhead strike any of us as someone stupid or emotionally irrational.

He resisted the temptation to invAde Ukraine even during the knowledge the Galician Neo Nazis Were raping and murdering hundreds of "Moskal" maidens. bBQing trade union colorados

Cut deals with Egypt and India. Financed 100b BRICS bank

So why would he kill a guy with 1% approval rating 36 hours before An opposition march

Even Clancy, Le Carre and Fleming would find that too hackneyed to believe

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:38 | 5839354 Anunnaki
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...in Front of the Kremlin no less!

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:31 | 5839335 HopefulCynical
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Please choose one from the following menu:

1) Putin, former KGB strongman & thug

2) Evelyn de Rothschild, psychopathic parasitic Pharisee

You may only choose one.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:32 | 5839340 DutchBoy2015
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2, the kike roach Rothschild mass murderer

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:37 | 5839352 Bumbu Sauce
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Nothing brings out the jew hatred at ZH like Magog and Mohammedians.

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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:40 | 5839359 DutchBoy2015
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Wipe off that KIKE KUM dribbling down your chin you pathetic GOY.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:57 | 5839555 Volkodav
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magog? what has ancient turkey to do with this?

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:25 | 5839668 Rock On Roger
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Thanks Volkodav

 

I saved the link this time.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:53 | 5839391 vyeung
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Anglo/American criminals at work again. Why shot the opposition outside red square in such high profile manner when you know if they wanted, the FSB could make it look like anything else. LANGLEY/Mossad/GCHQ fingerprints all over it.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 11:55 | 5839396 vyeung
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Who gains the most from this - certainly not Putin.

A march / demonstration is can be handled without any issues. Look at HK, worked out nicely. There is ZERO political gains to be had by killing the opposition. Only the Western Zionist criminals have the most to gain.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:18 | 5839446 Leszek
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Putin had certainly most to gain. Nemtsov planned to reveal Russian links to Ukraine conflict. So he was silenced before.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:52 | 5839543 Circle of DNA
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So he was rubbing McCain"s balls for more than a year and only now decided to “reveal” some secrete “information”? This is laughable at best. Why didn’t he reveal this “revelation” in the radio speech that he gave just minutes before he got offed? What was he waiting for???

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:41 | 5839727 napper
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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:06 | 5839422 Franktastic
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CIA Plant??

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:15 | 5839441 asophocles
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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:06 | 5839424 HowdyDoody
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Meanwhile in less reported news, the WSJ notes that the US has been supplying the Nazi ethnic cleansers in east Ukraine with satellite imagery of the Novorossian positions. There is still no sign of the satellite imagery relating to MH17.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:13 | 5839439 asophocles
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Have no fear, Vlad's going to get to the bottom of this whodunnit!

Just like OJ's eventually going to find the real killers. 

Now, while OJ’s MO was to search the back 9 of every upscale country club in the US, Vlad’s going to be looking for the guilty party at judo-fests in Moscow, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok.

Great killers…er, minds…think alike.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:29 | 5839481 DrNybble
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What better way to "manage" an investigation than for Putin to take a personal interest in its process.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:45 | 5839521 DutchBoy2015
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Just like having the FBI investigate 911

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:30 | 5839483 Falconsixone
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What's yohn think about the price of beans?

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:53 | 5839544 Volkodav
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He is not a colonel in KGB.

KGB ended with Soviet defunct.

otherwise VV Putin was administrative, not operative..

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:58 | 5839561 Counterpunch
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With special responsibility for the "reform" of the energy sector.... under yeltsin.

 

What was this reform?

 

Well, a bunch of oligarchs, almost all of them, like this guy, of Jewish descent (ditto Yats and the head of Parliament and a lot if not most of the oligarchs in Ukraije, which is <1% Jewish) bought up state owned concerns, well below fair value, all while growing the power of the Russian mob, which was and is still largely run by Jews.

 

Funny how the bureau chiefs and many reporters covering Russia at the Times and Wash Post tend to be Jewish, as are many or most of the loudest anti-Putin pundits out there.

 

But we are not supposed to notice this remarkable demographic phenomenon, wherein a particular tiny group wields wildly disproportionate influence, because it is "hate" to notice a strange, oft-repeated concentration of wealth and power by Jews.   you are supposed to not only ignore it, but decry such facts as fictions.

 

3 Jewish fed heads in a row, the top treasury posts, irs, omb, cftc, commerce...jesus commissioners of every major sport but football, network news chiefs, and on and on... it is "hate" to recite the facts...

 

 

Seems unlikely Putin killed the guy, but one must concede it is possible.  either way, the Jewish and Zionist element in the effort to destabilize Russia and keep lying about Iranian nukes is largely, disproportionately Jewish, and this is not because they care about peace, liberty, or justice.

 

They want to rule the world, and 'sit like an effendi and eat'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:59 | 5839568 saltoafronteira
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First salvo of tomorrow's assimetrical, or hibrid or whatever, anglo-american offensive for attempting colour-revolution against Russia. Some kind of starting shot for this spring's battle for Moscow, from the new whermacht/nato, in this reeeealy hybrid WW IV, started some one and a half years from now.

I only hope the Russians are alert and neutralize the nato snipers that are, certainly, already operational and in battle stations in and around Moscow.

After all, with all that fuel shortage in their country, the Ukrainian Nazis didnt move their SS-300 also into battle stations for nothing.

Desperate as they are, the anglo-american nazis see their window of opportunity rapidly closing. Time for the hardcore action !

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:00 | 5839574 Solarman
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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:21 | 5839656 The Wedge
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Ha Ha Truth hurts

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:07 | 5839600 DutchBoy2015
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Here in Holland our CIA controlled media is already reading the script handed to them.  Verbatim like the one handed to FOXCNNABCCBSNBC.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:40 | 5839720 mendolover
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Somehow I have a feeling that Putin will ace this one the same as he has aced most all of the fake bullshit blame that has been piled on him.  He may not be an angel but at least his constituency knows who he is and where he came from.  Not so much for the crybabies I'm surrounded by.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:33 | 5839889 nuke ISIS now
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I think Putin will fry because of this, and actually the only thing that he "aced", is confirmation that he is a murdering animal dictator, to which he utilizes "stooges" here at ZH to troll this site

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/27/boris-nemtsov-exposed-p...

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:49 | 5839974 Niall Of The Ni...
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On the contrary, Putin is the only currently serving European leader of his generation with any realistic chance of dying in bed beloved by his people.

Poroshenko won't fry either, mind you. Get his brains blown out and his carcass left for some Siberian wolves to feast on, but not electrocuted. Old Sparky's being saved for the Current Occupant of the White House.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:51 | 5839981 mendolover
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If Putin did this he's a bigger amateur than your president Obola.  

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:41 | 5839913 nuke ISIS now
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Very similar omparison to what Stalin perpetrated upon politica rivals in the 1930's as part of the "Great Purge"

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/571445343444992001

 

The World is now officially dealing with a very dangerous dictator, and horrifically, with Putin we may soon see hauntingly famliar images of what Hitler and the NAZI's attempted to do leading up to WW II

 

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:39 | 5839724 Jordan Cove
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So this is another attempt to destabilize Russia and throw it into chaos, by sacrificing the poor Nemtsov who claimed earlier to have more proof of direct Russian military activity in Ukraine? 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:45 | 5839739 saltoafronteira
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My, My ! War has already started at ZH !!!!!!!

could it be that the Ukrainian Nazis finally discovered this site, or is it only the foot soldier trolls?

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:58 | 5839772 Volkodav
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they on it like maggots hatch on dogpile

noone making reason, but disrupt inane bs

as was MSM, all over it....

 

 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:48 | 5839742 Dre4dwolf
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U.S. contractor proly went there and cleaned his clock with the intention to try and spin it against putin.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:01 | 5839784 Jordan Cove
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Or Putin will spin it against the NATO and the US.  

How did the woman Nemtsov was with escape the attack? Why didn't they kill her also?

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:03 | 5839788 napper
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Hard to believe that John Kerry is capable of feeling shock given his thick bone head. He should go get some real shock therapy on the frontlines in Ukraine. Same for John McCain.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:24 | 5839858 nuke ISIS now
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Starting to appear that Bruce Jenner was not reponsible for the hit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-opposition-leaders-see-kreml...

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 14:32 | 5839891 Bub Ba
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Fatal case of thinking with your little head instead of your big head: Nemtsov is banging a CIA-sponsored Ukranian honeypot; she says you want some more of this, confront Putin over Ukraine; he does and he becomes worth more as a dead martyr than as a failed politician. 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 15:14 | 5840089 agNau
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Juanita's remarks remind me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-oLQgvcuk

That's one big mouthful from the brainless gelding.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 15:59 | 5840216 napper
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Round up the usual suspects ... CIA, MI6, Mossad.

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 18:21 | 5840574 Iamzlatan
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Western media chooses to ignore lack of traffic 

Sat, 02/28/2015 - 20:41 | 5841045 mendolover
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For all we know the broad he was with could have popped a few into him and tossed the gun into the river.

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