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Tens Of Thousands Rally In Moscow To Mourn Slain Boris Nemtsov
If there was supposed to be any crackdown on opposition voices in Russia following the shocking death of Boris Nemtsov, it wasn't evident today during a rally in which tens of thousands converged in central Moscow this monring to mourn the veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, whose killing on the streets of the capital has, according to AP, shaken Russia's beleaguered opposition.
As AP reports, and as the photos below show, the mourners marched to the bridge near the Kremlin where Nemtsov was gunned down shortly before midnight Friday. "The march could serve to energize the opposition or it could prove to be a brief outpouring of emotions that once again dissipates in a climate of fear."
Russia's federal investigative agency said it was looking into several possible motives for his killing.
The first possibility, the Investigative Committee said, was that the murder was aimed at destabilizing the political situation in Russia and Nemtsov was a "sacrificial victim for those who do not shun any method for achieving their political goals."
This suggestion echoed comments by Putin's spokesman and other Russian politicians that the attack was a "provocation" against the state.
Opposition activists had planned a protest rally on Sunday, which the city demanded they hold in a suburban neighborhood. After Nemtsov's death, they called instead for a demonstration to mourn him in central Moscow. The city gave its quick approval.
Below are various snapshots from the rally:
MT @michaelbirnbaum: Panoramic view of #Nemtsov March, alongside the Kremlin walls. pic.twitter.com/GRVhc9UDTV #??????
— Boris Zilberman (@rolltidebmz) March 1, 2015
#Nemtsov march banner: "these bullets hit every one of us" pic.twitter.com/PBx2TAGypp
— Dmitry Vostok (@DmitryVostok) March 1, 2015
#Nemtsov March begins. Quiet crowd walks down to Kremlin embankment towards bridge where he was shot. Thousands. pic.twitter.com/jm9dMGiFrO
— Dmitry Vostok (@DmitryVostok) March 1, 2015
???? ???? ?? ????? #?????? #Nemtsov pic.twitter.com/1hlR4BiFSR
— ??? ??? (@riafanru) March 1, 2015
Nemtsov's memorial looks like the biggest protest in Russia since Bolotnaya. Organizers claiming 50,000-100,000. pic.twitter.com/HQjFzl3fQc
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 1, 2015
People pouring into mourning march to honor #Nemtsov http://t.co/Blg0CDv9er pic.twitter.com/6Whyjd63TZ
— RT (@RT_com) March 1, 2015
Moscow March feels more like a wake than opposition rally #Nemstov pic.twitter.com/bODrQtXhUW
— Anissa Naouai (@ANOWRT) March 1, 2015
Police lined up on march route next to bridge where nemtsov killed pic.twitter.com/aanZgpMXXk
— tom balmforth (@BalmforthTom) March 1, 2015
#Nemtsov March approaches place where he was killed, flowers laid across 100-150 metres pic.twitter.com/D4bB6VgAe4
— Dmitry Vostok (@DmitryVostok) March 1, 2015
Mourners reach bridge where #Nemtsov was killed http://t.co/Blg0CDv9er pic.twitter.com/8DPWTl62fk
— RT (@RT_com) March 1, 2015
#Nemtsov marchers shout Russia without Putin, No to war, Russia will be free pic.twitter.com/6965oDYAom
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) March 1, 2015
Mikhail Kasyanov on the bridge where #Nemtsov died: "We won't forgive, we won't forget. Boris with us" pic.twitter.com/F90sMD66T9
— Ryskeldi Satke (@RyskeldiSatke) March 1, 2015
Ukrainian, reported organizer of #Odessa Massacre, came to Moscow today to mourn his hero #BorisNemtsov pic.twitter.com/tHjkE8DV9n
— Mark Sleboda (@MarkSleboda1) March 1, 2015
Thousands of Russian flags with black ribbons but everyone once in a while blue and yellow #Moscow #Nemtsov pic.twitter.com/XeTL7X7KZo
— Anissa Naouai (@ANOWRT) March 1, 2015
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Cinches it for me,,,a definite hit by western Intel,,,
A comment I read when threading down said the "CIA" has better writers. No... They just play the same game over and over.
One would think Russian Intel would be up to speed on this by now.
Edit: Got to thinking. The new CIA isn't even close to the old,,, they're more interested in dreaded usa constitutionalists,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Now the Germans...... they have always been good at these things and have a first rate foreign intelligence group.
If Putin had done this, then it would have been less direct and not in public. Why would he openly assasinate a rival like that? It's obviously an orchestrated event to stoke tensions. Just like the Tymoshenko gambit brought about the Ukrainian coup. This assasination is attempting to do the same.
yes less direct, less in the public, hmm yeah kind a like:
Anna Politkovskaya, or maybe Alexander Litvinenko, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSpontaneous citizens' memorial at entrance to Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow apartment 10 October 2006
The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya (born 1958), the Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist, took place on 7 October 2006. She was well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.[1][2]She authored several books about the Chechen wars, as well as Putin's Russia, and received numerous prestigious international awards for her work. Her murder was widely perceived as a contract killing, sparking a strong international reaction.
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Background[edit]Politkovskaya's book, Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy, strongly criticized Putin's federal presidency, including his pursuit of the Second Chechen War. She accused Putin and the Russian secret service FSB of stifling all civil liberties in order to establish a Soviet-style dictatorship, but admitted that "it is we who are responsible for Putin's policies":
She also wrote:
"People often tell me that I am a pessimist, that I don't believe in the strength of the Russian people, that I am obsessive in my opposition to Putin and see nothing beyond that," she opens an essay titled Am I Afraid?, finishing it—and the book—with the words: "If anybody thinks they can take comfort from the 'optimistic' forecast, let them do so. It is certainly the easier way, but it is the death sentence for our grandchildren."[4][5]
Death threats[edit] See also: Anna Politkovskaya- According to Russian state security officer Alexander Litvinenko, Politkovskaya asked him if her life was in imminent danger before the assassination. He confirmed the danger and recommended her to escape from Russia immediately. He also asserted that former presidential candidate Irina Hakamada warned Politkovskaya about threats to her life coming from Putin. Hakamada later denied her involvement in passing any specific threats, and said that she warned Politkovskaya only in general terms more than a year before her death.[11] It remains unclear whether the warning by Litvinenko was related to an earlier statement made by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who claimed that former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Boris Nemtsov received word from Hakamada that Putin threatened her and like-minded colleagues in person. According to Berezovsky, Putin uttered that Hakamada and her colleagues "will take in the head immediately, literally, not figuratively" if they "open the mouth" about the Russian apartment bombings.[12]
Assassination[edit] Wikinews has related news:Politkovskaya's deathOn 7 October 2006, Politkovskaya was found shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow.[13][14] Police said aMakarov pistol and four shell casings were found beside her body. Reports indicated a contract killing[citation needed], as she was shot four times, once in the head. It is unclear about who ordered the killing or was it an independent act of violence.[15][16][17]
The funeral was held on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, at 2:30 p.m. at the Troyekurovsky Cemetery. Before Politkovskaya was laid to rest, more than 1,000 people filed past hercoffin to pay their last respects. Dozens of Politkovskaya's colleagues, public figures and admirers of her work gathered for the funeral. No high-ranking Russian officials could be seen at the ceremony.[18]
Reaction[edit] Main article: International reaction to the assassination of Anna PolitkovskayaThe European Union and many governments condemned the murder of Politkovskaya, calling for a thorough investigation into the crime by Russian authorities.
Soon after her death, Vitaly Yaroshevsky, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta, where she worked, said: "The first thing that comes to mind is that Anna was killed for her professional activities. We don't see any other motive for this terrible crime."[19] He said Politkovskaya gave an interview to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty the week before her death in which she said she was a witness in a criminal case against Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with abductions in Chechnya—a case based on her reporting. In that same interview, she called Kadyrov the "Stalin of our days".[20]
On 8 October 2006, hundreds rallied in downtown Moscow to protest the murder of Politkovskaya and the recent crackdown on ethnic Georgians.[21] The demonstration was described by the Moscow-based, liberal radio station Echo of Moscow as "the largest protest rally of the opposition recently held in Russia."[22] A day after the murder, there was a demonstration and memorial consisting of 500 people in Moscow as well as 300 people gathering in St. Petersburg. Further rallies and vigils took place in other Russian cities, including St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Saratov and Krasnoyarsk, as well as London, Paris, New York, and Washington.[23]
In addition, more than 1,000 people (later estimation: more than 3,000) gathered at the Russian embassy in Helsinki, Finland to pay their respects to Politkovskaya. The demonstration was silent, with people holding candles. Two of Politkovskaya's books have been published in Finland as translated editions.[24]
On 10 October 2006, 2,000 demonstrators called Putin a "murderer" during his visit to Dresden, Germany.[25][26][27] Putin replied:
- "This journalist was indeed a sharp critic of the present Russian authorities...but the degree of her influence over political life in Russia was extremely insignificant. She was well-known in journalistic circles, among human rights activists, in the West. I repeat, her influence over political life in Russian was minimal.[28] And in my opinion murdering such a person certainly does much greater damage from the authorities’ point of view, authorities that she strongly criticized, than her publications ever did."[29][30][31]
Possibly related events in the aftermath of her death[edit]Politkovskaya's assassination was discussed by the media in connection with the deaths of other critics of Putin,[32] including her colleague from Novaya Gazeta Yuri Shchekochikhin,[33][34] Russian Duma members Galina Starovoitova and Sergei Yushenkov, and journalist Artyom Borovik:[35]
According to some reports, Litvinenko tried to investigate Politkovskaya's death.[37][38] He was also writing a book about FSB activities including concentration camps in Chechnya. In that regard, he had frequent contacts with Politkovskaya.[39] Litvinenko's poisoning was remarkably similar to the thallium poisoning of KGB defector Nikolai Khokhlov,[40] whom Politkovskaya had interviewed for Novaya Gazeta.[41]
It still remains unclear who ordered the assassination. Some speculations were fueled by the fact that she was killed on Putin's birthday. Historian Yuri Felshtinsky and political scientist Vladimir Pribylovsky commented [48] that none of the official suspects had personal motives to kill Politkovskaya.[dated info] This led them to suggest several possible contractors: "the central leadership of the secret service - as a birthday present for Putin" or "Ramzan Kadyrov, also as a birthday present for Putin, in the hopes of receiving a present in return - the presidency of Chechnya (the hope was realized)".
On the other hand Ramzan Kadyrov alleged that oligarch Boris Berezovsky was behind Politkovskaya's killing. "We would need Politkovskaya today to show what she used to say, and what there is now. People arrive and walk freely around Grozny. A normal life! How could our enemies use Politkovskaya effectively? By killing her. Who did it? Berezovsky, I believe," Kadyrov was quoted as saying in April 2009.[49]
Case developments[edit] First arrests and official announcements[edit]In late August 2007, police arrested ten suspects believed to have been involved in Politkovskaya's murder. Russia's Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika stated that the plotters' aim was to start a crisis to destabilize Russia. The suspects included members of a Chechen organized crime group, as well as a number of former FSB agents.[50]
On 28 August 2007, Chaika met with Putin and FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, during which he made an official announcement:
Chaika also said that Politkovskaya's killers were probably connected with the murders of Central Bank deputy chairman Andrei Kozlov and U.S. journalist Paul Khlebnikov.[52]The person noted by Chaika as organizer of the murder was identified in the media as Boris Berezovsky.[52] Chaika's statement was supported by Andrei Lugovoi, who had been indicted by a British court with regard to the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning. Lugovoi said Berezovsky had organized the murders of Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, and the attempted murder of Yelena Tregubova.[53]
Suspected killer identified[edit]On 28 March 2008, it was reported that the suspected killer of journalist Anna Politkovskaya was identified.[54] The suspect was identified as 30 year old Chechen Rustam Makhmudov, a brother of Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs who have been suspected on complicity to the murder.[55][56]
However, on 3 April 2008, Investigating Committee of the Persecution Office of Russia Dmitry Dovgy (suspended of his duty under allegations of taking bribes, though the interview was taken before his suspension) told the press that he is convinced that "Politkovskaya's murder was masterminded by Boris Berezovsky[57] and carried out by Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev".[58] Dovgy said that the murder was aimed at undermining confidence in law and order in Russia. He said the organizers [of Politkovskaya's murder] "wanted to show that well-known people can be killed here in broad daylight, with the law enforcement agencies seemingly unable to solve such crimes". Berezovsky dismissed the accusations in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio. "This is another attempt to distract the investigation from searching for the real person behind the murder," he said.
On 4 April 2008, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that all suspects in the case are members of Russian special services, and someone in the government protects the killers by openly disclosing the secret materials of the investigation.[59] The report discussed the involvement of Nukayev who allegedly also organized the assassination ofPaul Khlebnikov. According to this publication, the traces of the killers lead to the gang of Maxim Lazovsky,[59] a former FSB officer who allegedly organized a bombing in Moscow in 1994, and was later involved in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.[60][61]
On 18 June 2008, the investigating committee at the Moscow prosecutor general's office announced that the preliminary investigation was concluded, and three people, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, Dzhabrail Makhmudov and Ibragim Makhmudov, were set to stand trial for murder. Another suspect, Pavel Ryaguzov, has been charged with lesser offenses, including abuse of office and extortion.[61][62] Colleagues who were close to Politkovskaya at Novaya Gazeta say the mystery is far from over however. Deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta magazine, Sergey Sokolov said: "The investigation is finished in regards to only the three people in question. But as for other people involved - the ones who have been identified and those who are still to be identified, like the killer and the person who ordered the murder - they are set apart into a separate group. The investigation will be continued." Russian prosecutors said their investigation against Rustam Makhmudov, who a month ago they alleged shot Politkovskaya, was ongoing.[62]
On 1 July 2008, Russia's chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin confirmed that Rustam Makhmudov, the man believed by authorities to have fired the fatal shot, was hiding inwestern Europe. Bastrykin did not publicly identify the specific country, but said it was known by Russian authorities. Unconfirmed Russian media reports suggest that Moscowhas requested Makhmudov's extradition from Belgium.[63] At the end of May 2011, Makhmudov was arrested in Chechnya.[64]
Other arrests[edit]On 16 July 2012, Russian officials announced that a former police officer, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a lieutenant colonel in the police when Politkovskaya had been assassinated, was charged with planning the murder of Politkovskaya.[65]
Opinions[edit]Moscow-based journalist Yulia Latynina suggested in February 2009 that the mastermind of the assassination might have been people around the former President of ChechnyaAlu Alkhanov.[66][67]
The trial[edit]On 2 October 2008, the case against Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov was sent to court by the prosecutors.[68]
On 25 November 2008, it was reported that the murder was ordered by a Russian politician. The defence lawyer representing the four men charged over Politkovskaya's murder told reporters that the unnamed politician, based in Russia, was mentioned in the case files.
The deputy Editor-in-chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Sergei Sokolov publicly asserted in court that the suspected hitman Rustam Makhmudov had been wanted for other crimes by the police since 1998, but had been protected by the Russian domestic secret service (FSB) and, personally, by FSB Colonel Pavel Ryaguzov who provided him with a forged passport. Ryaguzov was another suspect in the case. An attorney for Ryaguzov objected to this disclosure on the grounds that the alleged connections of Makmudov with FSB represent a "state secret".[69]
On 19 February 2009 the trial ended with the unanimous jury acquittal of Dzhabrail Makhmudov, Ibragim Makhmudov, and Sergei Khadzhikurbanov. The prosecutor Vera Pashkovskaya stated that the verdict would be appealed.[70]
Commenting on the end of the trial against a few suspects in Moscow yesterday, Andrew McIntosh, Chairman of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Sub-Committee on the Media and Rapporteur on media freedom, expressed his deep frustration at the lack of progress in investigating the murder of Anna Politkovskaya on 7 October 2006 and the inability of the Russian authorities to find her killers: "Two years ago, in its Resolution 1535 (2007), the Assembly called on the Russian Parliament to closely monitor the progress in the criminal investigations regarding the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and hold the authorities accountable for any failures to investigate or prosecute. The closure of the trial yesterday can only be regarded as a blatant failure. I call on the Russian authorities and Parliament to relaunch a proper investigation and shed light on this murder, which undermines not only freedom of expression in Russia, but also its democratic foundation based on the rule of law. There are no excuses for these flawed investigations into murders of politically critical journalists writing against corruption and crime within government, such as the murders of Georgy Gongadze in Ukraine in 2000 and Paul Klebnikov in Moscow in 2004."[71]
The BBC comment on the trial's failure said: "The alleged killer was somehow tipped off and was able to flee the country. And it has never emerged why Anna Politkovskaya had been under surveillance by the FSB for at least two months before her murder. Very quickly the investigation ground to a halt. As soon as it became clear that the FSB was involved, a veil of secrecy descended."[72]
Retrial[edit]On 25 June 2009, the Supreme Court overturned the not guilty verdicts and ordered a retrial for three men on charges related to her murder.[73][74]
In December 2012 former police officer Dmitry Pavliutchenkov was found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in prison for the murder in a special bargain deal for providing evidence against others involved in the killing. Politkovskaya's family called Pavliutchenkov's testimony "politically motivated" and called for a longer sentence.[75]
In June 2014 five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, two of them receiving life sentences. It is still unclear whether it was an independent act of violence or contract killing.[76]
Kind of RUDE dude. You can just post the wiki link and not the entire article. Or you can quote the area of interest with the link to more. But then you are just an ahole so it figures.
"The Phony Litvinenko Murder" William Dunkerley
I'm more interested to know about how much neo-con cocks she sucked when she was alive.
Flapdoodle's foolproof method to detect trolls on ZH:
1) if troll's narrative is going bad (lots down arrows and
2) argument unmasking the Anglo
Zionist Deep State is going badly
Then
3) Paid troll will inject a huge article in its full glory right in the middle of the narrative to disuade the readers
Yawn.
That Ukrainian guy, Alexei Goncharenko, the reported organizer of Odessa massacre, has been detained, lifenews reports.
link?
Odessa Massacre organizer comes to Moscow to "pay his respects" to Nemtsov, gets arrested
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-...
There you go: http://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=lifenews.ru%2Fnews%2F150570&lr=2...
Must be like Catnip to John McCain & Lindsey Grahm.
Psychopaths looking at this, Communists all out in the open in one place, Red Square!!!
Ichy Fingers, rubbing thigh, clenching Jaw, calling a military alert, DEFCON 1!!
Nuke 'Em!!
Follow the cookies.
To the Girl Scouts?
Well....that ukrainian pictured in the various snapshots section who organized the odessa massacre was just arrested at the rally.(.haha welcome to moscow).his name is Goncharenko
Sad that this guy died for no purpose other than to fulfill someone's else's ambition to destabilize the country he loved. A true sacrificial pawn.
I suspect he loved the lavish CIA-funded lifestyle a litle more.
Window opened where he became more valuable dead than alive
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.
Zero Hedge claims to decry statism, and yet it embraces Russia's Putin unreservedly. How exactly does that work?
It is Putin, after all, who is an ardent believer in price controls (witness the recent ceiling on vodka prices), Putin who decides which businesses will be owned outright or controlled by the state (e.g., Rosneft and Gazprom in energy, Sberbank in banking, and Channel One Russia and RT in "news").
Why exactly does Vlad get a pass?
Because he loathes America, just like Zero Hedge and many of its readers.
Vlad is not a correct dimunitive form of the name Vladimir...
you can't get anything right
Message to Langely: The plan is gong better than expected
Translated from Russian Speak, This is like plain speach, that he is a CIA agent:
.... mourn the veteran liberal ......
and he was.
msm really getttin' outted w/this story. can no longer be any doubt. reclaim should start w/bringin' these rodents to justice.
Even the opposition in Russia is fovor Putin.
Read Saker.
He is surprised by this.
hehe.
Another false flag that backfired.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
CIA goons make interesting things happen.
So many Russian Zionists...
So little time!!!
Funny how many a commenter here are quick to claim that ISIS is a creation of the CIA or Mosad or MI6 (take your pick) and is just a false boogieman being used as a vehicle to expand repression here at home, but these same individuals wouldn't for one second entertain the idea that the Putin clan just might use the assassination of a known opponent as vehicle for "destabilization" and the perfect excuse to expand their own repression. But no Pooty and company have miraculously changed the tide of 6 centuries of Russian history in but the wink of an eye. Bullshit! You ask if the spontaneous outpouring within but a day is suspicious but don't even raise an eyebrow at the apparent similar readiness of the police and internal security forces to meet them.
The Hegemon is executing its OODA loop against its mortal enemy -- the American public. The problem is some have dialed in the strategy and can see where this is going. For anyone who has a rigid mind and has been conditioned their whole life by the MSM and the Anglo Zion deep state, everything seems disjoint and chaotic.
Once you start to understand the direction the Zionist monster is taking, everything falls into place. Nemstov is just Nisman II.
Please go kill yourself troll. The Hegemon you support is the author of unspeakable evil.
Remember Michael Hastings.
Once you start to understand the direction the Zionist monster is taking, everything falls into place. Nemstov is just Nisman II.
Well said indeed flap!... It has a name. And it's called absolute desperation within the psychopath's brain!!!
Anyway... Just what kind of comment were you expecting from an Air Force or Navy pilot that made a career out of dropping napalm and "white phosphorous" on innocent men, women and children?...
It looks like Washington failed again.
The propaganda has now reached the "laughability stage"...seriously dude, give it up...look at the tens of thousands of folks who showed up, despite your fellow paid blowjobs who insisted that this guy was a "nothing" an "unknown", evidently that is hardly the case, and even if so, then the hit really fucked you in the ass, dry...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GQnRlwRWg
You reap what you sow
Sorry I don't click on links.
This killing was not for the purpose of convincing the US public which is largely catatonic when it comes to these types of events. The killing was really meant to cow Congress into voting for more stupid and war mongering moves.
The best bit about the march? The organizers, who have to submit a permit request to the Moscow local government, are based in Luxemburg. Why Luxemburg? Tight secrecy over bank accounts perchance?
Edit - the protestors at the Maidan in Kiev were paid $100 per day (from memory). I wonder what the going rate is in Moscow?
False-flag demo!!!
Those are really pollacks!!!
"many Russians didn’t even know he existed. Nemtsov didn’t even manage to get elected as mayor of Sochi, winning a mere 14% of the vote in the city’s 2009 mayoral elections.
Nemtsov was unpopular even among the opposition; this comes from being a Yeltsin-era politician. Many even argue that Nemtsov was a “decorative” asset for Putin as a stable, familiar, relatively honest but powerless opposition figure.
In short, this assassination makes no sense. Nemtsov as a martyr is a far, far bigger problem for Putin than he ever was alive, especially on the international mass media stage, where people can be easily convinced Nemtsov was killed because he “was a threat to Putin.” But with an 85% popularity rating—Putin has no need to assassinate his second tier opponents.
Incredibly, in 2012, Putin warned of this type of false flag on national television."
This guy was hardly an opposition figure. It was how he mad a living, paid by American NGO's to foment trouble, and he was lousy at that too. What he appears good at is pickingup 25 year old Ukrainian girls from Kiev, he being already in his 50's!
Jack Burton- believing that Putin has a 85% popularity amongst Russians from their media is like believing that the vast majority of Americans agree with Obama and got to keep their doctors from our media.
Get real.
inane
I tried to avoid/ignore all about him...
I didn't even know he had a wife, but some here seem to think so...
Elite settlements under Yeltsin deep search tells a lot...bad times
.
jack i disagree we are weeping likes an open pustuluntlunt wounds in tel avivs tonight this mornings
a quites befores the stormings
we jews csn not carry on being slaughtered by the brics countries.
what with argentenias kirchners killing all the jewisher journalists now the putin killing future leaders of the russian soils.
bully putin is selling all of greter israel in siberia off to the china man this is an insult to the talmoo.
are leader nutty yahoo must start being more pro active yes no?
no more burnt offerings you nazi goy devils
Holy cow! How did the CIA get that many protesters into Russia without Pooty Poot knowing? Boy they are really good. s/
Long collapsed apartment blocks.
It was a planned event idiot.
Months in advance.
CIA took advantage of the optics.
Lying sacks of shit.
Assassination of Nemtsov not rocket science for CIA.
All CIA must does is convince same people they convinced before that Russian snipers was killing one Ukrainian at a time from roofs top around Maidan.
Such was Putin's big plan to stop revolution (coup) in Kiev.
Same peoples will believe Putin killed Nemtsov in front of cctv and Kremlin.
Everybody can believe what she wants. We still going to take your gold fillings out when you die.
He made himself a target when he said a few weeks ago that he feared that Putin would assassinate him. That put some wheels in motion.
Thousands of iPhones were given out.
Distraction.
Mr. CIA agent, who keeps track of the lies?
How do you know what the truth is anymore?
Does the truth matter?
The bulk of comments to this post prove this site is dedicated to pro-Putin positions only, no matter what his level of criminality is in geopolitics or domestically. Less than 5% of the comments either decry the killing, or suggest he was murdered for political purposes, which he quite obviously was. Pretty pathetic showing. Looks like most of you will complain constantly about U.S. foreign policy and embrace this thug who worked for the NSB and sussed on his classmates while in college as a KGB spy. Pretty honorable fellow you lot support. This certainly does not go for all of you, but a lot: Putin sympathizers. How many of you are Americans who are sympathic to him? Why don't you move there?
"which he quite obviously was"
And how is it that obvious? Because the western media says so?
Go fuck yourself. We've had one of the worse presidents in American history running the CIA before. You know, the CIA...those church-going lovelies. So mate, the blokes here that seem to be for Putin and rally around him are not doing so for the vodka and faberge jewels. They are doing so because they are against the facists in the US/West...even in your beloved England.
The problem with moving there is that as a westerner, you'd have a terrific uphill battle to prove that you weren't like the rest of the ziocon monsters that wage war against them and their families. You know, kinda like yourself. The average russian is far more intelligent than the average westerner. They know. They seeeeee youuuuuu.
you can go back to CNN, FOX, Bloomberg or WSJ...oops my bad, I forgot they removed the 'comment sections' due Mr.Putin's favoritism.
you know a lot that isn't truth
better worry about your own country
CIA needs a new Farm-er.
"If there was supposed to be any crackdown on opposition voices in Russia following the shocking death of Boris Nemtsov, it wasn't evident today"
This is awkward for you isnt it Tyler
"If there was supposed to be any crackdown on opposition voices in Russia following the shocking death of Boris Nemtsov, it wasn't evident today"
This is awkward for you isnt it Tyler
"If there was supposed to be any crackdown on opposition voices in Russia following the shocking death of Boris Nemtsov, it wasn't evident today"
This is awkward for you isnt it Tyler
Everybody knows by now to sabotage planes...not do the hit where you'll have witnesses and in range of cameras...