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Putin Condemns "Brazen Murder Of Boris Nemtsov" As "Politically Motivated"
Vladimir Putin has broken his public silence since Boris Nemtsov's murder and, perhaps unsurprisingly, stirred up further controversy. While condemning the "brazen murder of Boris Nemtsov right in the center of the capital," WSJ reports, he told senior Police officials to "finally rid Russia of shame and tragedy" of politically-motivated murders. As The Guardian notes, this seemingly contradicts theories the former deputy prime minister was shot over a domestic or business row.
Boris Nemtsov, as The Guardian notes, is the most prominent opposition figure to be killed in Russia during Putin’s 15-year rule.
Many prominent political murders have remained unsolved in the past, and the US president, Barack Obama, and Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, have called on the Kremlin to make sure the Nemtsov killing is properly investigated.
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
Russian President Vladimir Putin told senior police officials Wednesday that they should “finally rid Russia of shame and tragedy” such as the killing of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, his first public comments on the slaying.
Mr. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister who later became a fierce Kremlin critic, was gunned down near the Kremlin late Friday, a murder that opposition allies blame on the authorities.
“The most serious attention should be paid to high-profile crimes, including those with a political motive. We need to finally rid Russia of shame and tragedy such as we experienced and saw very recently. I mean the brazen murder of Boris Nemtsov right in the center of the capital,” he said in a speech.
Investigators haven’t named any suspects in the case, but say they are questioning witnesses, carrying out forensic analysis and have checked security camera footage.
The Kremlin released a statement from Mr. Putin shortly after the murder, saying it looked like a contract killing and was of a “provocative nature,” suggesting it was aimed at discrediting authorities.
Investigators say they are looking into whether Mr. Nemtsov was a “sacrificial victim” used to destabilize the country. Other theories include a link to the conflict in Ukraine or Islamist extremists.
Asked Wednesday whether there were any suspects in the case, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, Alexander Bortnikov, was quoted by state news agencies as saying: “There always are.”
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As The Guardian concludes, Putin's comments seemingly contradicts theories the former deputy prime minister was shot over a domestic or business row.
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If anyone would know if it's political, it's Putin.
Yup Cui Bono? Who benefits?
Or as William of Occam would say, "The simplest explanation is usually the truth."
Exactly! Vlad eliminated another nemesis.
He's learned since Khodorkovsky and Navalny that he needs to put them down for good or they'll be a continued nuisance.
The victim was a has been, not even worth spending the lead for Putin.
He would probably want him alive, not dead.
So cui bono ?
Name the speaker of this excerpt from a speech given in October 2014:
The measures taken against those who refuse to submit are well-known and have been tried and tested many times. They include use of force, economic and propaganda pressure, meddling in domestic affairs, and appeals to a kind of ‘supra-legal’ legitimacy when they need to justify illegal intervention in this or that conflict or toppling inconvenient regimes. Of late, we have increasing evidence too that outright blackmail has been used with regard to a number of leaders. It is not for nothing that ‘big brother’ is spending billions of dollars on keeping the whole world, including its own closest allies, under surveillance.
Let’s ask ourselves, how comfortable are we with this, how safe are we, how happy living in this world, and how fair and rational has it become? Maybe, we have no real reasons to worry, argue and ask awkward questions? Maybe the United States’ exceptional position and the way they are carrying out their leadership really is a blessing for us all, and their meddling in events all around the world is bringing peace, prosperity, progress, growth and democracy, and we should maybe just relax and enjoy it all?
Let me say that this is not the case, absolutely not the case.
It's either Ron Paul, Vladimir Putin, or Edward Snowden.
Political figures enjoying an 80%+ approval rating don't silence critics.
A failing global monetary system, however, chained to a dying dollar (and Russia's desire to move away from said dollar) may have something to do with it.
Exactly. Nemtsov didn't have that much support in Russia either. The MSM story stinks, as usual.
Stalin had 99.99% approval rate and was constantly killing his opponents. This was/is the Russia, Soviet, and post-Soviet way to stay in power. Russian and Soviet dictators ALWAYS were afraid of their own shadow.
For people outside of Russia, it is close to impossible to understand why such things do take place. Just a simple Russia history statistics: near 50% of all Russian Czars were murdered as well as the Soviet dictator Joe Stalin who was poisoned by his own internal circle.
IMHO, the present Russia elite is starting to break apart. Yes, Nemtsov was not recently in the highest echelon of power but he, like Putin, was one of top Yeltsin's people who now rule Russia. It is of interest that Yeltsin's widow as well as many present oligarchs outside of Putin nearest circle have attended Nemtsov funerals.
To make a long story short, the Nemtsov murder was just a beginning of the present straggle for power. It was the Putin's opening shot. The murder spree at the highest level of Russia power is just started. The same was after Lenin and Stalin death.
fappar
Ron, Vlad and Ed are all peas in the same pod - Putin said it.
addendum: I'm big time Ron Paul fan by the way ....
You're right.
I agree with what Putin said but think the irony of a Russian leader referencing George Orwell's 1984 and applying it to the US is priceless.
The victim was a long-time thorn in Vlad's side, and Vlad had both the motive and means to dispense with him. Cui Bono indeed.
Do better research.
You're so transparent, Bob.
Who's on suicide watch for your mom tonight?
And of course you have that "research" all ready to be presented right here and now...
What did one potato say to the other potato?
Its a trick question.
No Latvian has two potatoes.
No Latvian HAVE two potato
fixed it 4 U
We have the motive but not the means to dispense with you.
Our cui bono list is extensive.
can't be the work of the great peace loving Putey Pute, it had to be the work of the evil CIA
Actually, yes. The conduit however was in all likelihood some combination of a Ukro-Checheno connection. CIA goes along very well with mafia thugs, are essentially brethren.
So let me ask, are you saying that he ordered an assassination to be carried out by not so subtle gunman on a public way, with witness and cameras all around, close to the Kremlin, and not even bothering to make it look like a suicide or something, nor killing a close witness (the girlfriend)? Yeah right, that really looks like a former KGB style... I guess they just forgot to drop Putin's own passport on the crime scene...
But don't you think that there are indeed "cleaner" methods for removing a "continued nuisance" than executing them mafia style in front of the Kremlin?! Look at all those pictures coming in from Moscow, they all show Kremlin in the background... would Putin really want such "advertisement" especially at this point in time? I really very much doubt it.
< Putin is responsible.
< Putin is a psychic.
The ONLY was that Putin could know the motivation of Nemtsov's murderers would be if (complete the sentence above.)
He drove the getaway car?
he eavesdropped on the murderers using NSA techniques.
<Putin is being attacked
<State Dept Destabilsation program
Not much of a choice is it? The answer to your question is, he and many others have something you lack: Some brain cells that can process the age old question of, "Who benefits?"
I just love all the false choices presented with any Putin thread...lol.
I still consider the US State Department to be the largest terrorist organization on the planet.
I swear, just being honest here.
Vlad is in my dreams lately,
Might wanna ease up on the absinthe.
its NOT that, but thanks for the advice..
I saw a video (youtube) of him as he was being escorted to his jet with an Aussie ( i think) motorcycle escort. When he got out of the car he purposefully walked up and shook the bikers hands that escorted him. Unlike the coffee drinking commander in chief who can salute a marine...
Fuck me...what planet am i on?
Planet Asshole. Welcome.
Just passing thru' ?
Planet Urectum
Common courtesy, respect for an honest day's work...
Yeah, I saw a movie like that, made in the Fifties....
So I'm not alone (no /s and no BS)
Of course it was politically motivated. And now it's creating political repercussions. Just as intended. Destabilizing and further erroding trust globally.
Putin had nothing to gain by Boris Nemtsov's murder. The first rule in anyn investigation is cui bono?
ok you can rule out Sonny Bono
3 March 2015The assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is a significant political event that arises out of the US-Russia confrontation and the intense struggle that is now underway within the highest levels of the Russian state. The Obama administration and the CIA are playing a major role in the escalation of this conflict, with the aim of producing an outcome that serves the global geo-political and financial interests of US imperialism.
The relations between the United States and Russia are approaching a point of breakdown, with potentially catastrophic consequences. The Obama administration has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be removed from power, based on the Kremlin’s refusal to accept, as a fait accompli, the overthrow last year of the democratically elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and its opposition to the complete economic and military integration of Ukraine into the US sphere of influence.
Especially in the aftermath of Russia’s interference in US plans to attack Syria in 2013 and its granting of political asylum to NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Putin’s continued presidency has been deemed incompatible with US geo-political interests. Thus, the decision has been made to instigate—through international political pressure, economic sanctions, and covert operations of various sorts—Putin’s removal from power.
It is all but obvious that the Obama administration is hoping a faction will emerge within the Russian elite, backed by elements in the military and secret police, capable of staging a “palace coup” and getting rid of Putin. The personal fate of the Russian president—whether he goes the way of Serbia’s Milosevic, Romania’s Ceausescu, Iraq’s Hussein or Libya’s Gaddafi—is to be decided by the circumstances of his ouster.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/03/pers-m03.html
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.
Another young trolling moron reporting for duty... 4 weeks 1 day old. Well sport, I hope you've earned your potato for today...
iofera is too stupid to be a Latvian potato troll.
His lame and limited repertoire, which goes along with his lame and limited mental capacity, reveals this to be just another sock puppet of Amerikan Patriot.
His asophocles (assfecals) account looks like it got shitcanned earlier today. The dungheap of his previous accounts continues to grow:
asophocles
5e0V2a3
stopeuro
Amerikan Patriot
and whats worse, he copied it from a post a few days back...
Bob, have you been drinking?
(sniff sniff) Yep.
What the fuck? "the US president, Barack Obama, and Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, have called on the Kremlin to make sure the Nemtsov killing is properly investigated."
Can you imagine if Putin said he wanted a murder in the US properly investigated? Fucking stupid
Relax,
Le Froggies have volunteered Inspector Clouseau.
Aha! Eees coming to me now.
Zee garbawge twuk had stoooped to let stray cat cross zee road. Sinking monsieur Nemtsov has trown zee kitty away, le driver in a fit of raged shooted him.
As everyone noesid Putin loves zee fluffy animuls.
Case solvid!
Thanks lolz cat.
"Vladimir Putin has called on the White House to make sure the Michael Hastings killing is properly investigated."
That would be pretty cool.
PROOF that Putin Killed Russian Opposition Leader Nemtsov
delightful humor---+1
What's hard to see in that graphic illustration is that Putin carefully orchestrated the kill angle so that Nemtsov collapsed dead on top of a litter of newborn puppies!
Fabulous. Just fabulous...
Seems like the theory that Nemtsov was killed to ingite furor for the next day's schedule protest is getting some legs. With the CIA being nothing but an assassination club these days they have to be a prime suspect here.
“There always are.”
We will never know.The CIA speciality is the double cross.
The gunman was probably dead within an hour.
Same goes for the operatives that did 9/11.
Dead men tell no tales.
Yeah. I've seen the movie.
Where do you hire an assasign and garbage truck at midnight in Moscow? I do not know any private individuals who own garbage trucks.
"Boris Nemtsov, as The Guardian notes, is the most prominent opposition figure to be killed in Russia during Putin’s 15-year rule."
Just imagine, fifteen years "ruling" a country. Helluva gig if you can find it.
"Many prominent political murders have remained unsolved in the past..."
Hey! If it ain't broke, don't fix it! ;-)
There's a flip side to being the Big Kahuna.
You've kinda got a tiger by the tail.
Looking at how much US presidents age after only 8 years, Putin should look like he's 100.
To whom are you speaking? To Putin? or To the agent provocateurs?
<<Hey! If it ain't broke, don't fix it! ;-)>>
Yeah, 15 years is a long time but so what? Have you checked out The Glimmer Twins lately???
Lots of men spend more than 15 years leading their own corporations. Maybe, just maybe, we will have to buy from one of Putin's corporations.
Russia's a corporation? Who knew!...lol.
And who are these "agent provocateurs" I would be speaking to...on ZH? Isn't that kinda out in the open as opposed to clandestine or skullduggery?
Lighten up Francis, you'll pop a blood vessel or sumpin.
Like the US is any better. Unsolved? After JFK's brains were splattered all over Dallas in 1963, the US has been run by a shadow govt. It was a coup d'etat and nobody was ever brought to justice for the murder.
Buy hey, don't let that get in the way of your endless Putin and Russia bashing.
Well, I'm not gonna disagree with you on JFK. Osawld couldn't have done what he "supposedly did" on a moving target going away, with a bolt action scoped Caranco, ain't gonna happen. He could have shot him coming toward him (look at the route).
At any rate, I'm anti-statist anti-crony, while you slobber & drool over the next big thing, like Putin.
You really think an ex-KGB man is any different from what you're pretending to abhor?
I didn't say anything about liking Putin. The fact you fall into the MSM bullshit and propaganda when it comes to this issue is what I find odd.
And BTW, the CIA took out JFK with help from LBJ, Bush Sr and others. Oswald was simply a patsy.
"I didn't say anything about liking Putin."
Ummm...these are your words are they not?
"Buy hey, don't let that get in the way of your endless Putin and Russia bashing."
Putin is as much of a psyho as Obama, you don't get to where they are by being Mother Theresa, fucking grow up.
Nice try on the twisted logic there. Pointing out your utter hypocrisy and pro Western bias is getting old pal.
No logic involved at all BP, just pointing out your...
Well no, I'm not going to do it, I kinda like you and I really don't give a shit what you think of me because its wrong.
Dude, no up or down arrows, but he has a point.
Resorting to The Guardian as a source for a cheap shot? Come on, you're better than that.
dude that was 50 years ago...you have this shitgoing on now...
better worry about your own country
The people are fine, its the government thats fucked up.
Kinda like Russia.
Who has been ruling the USA for the last 15 years because it sure as hell has not been Bush or Obama.
Putin learned the hard way that merely jailing the opposition (Khodorkovsky, Navalny) is a temporary fix. If you want to silence them for the long term, you need to kill them.
Victoria Nuland used as the prostitute.
I glad Putin cleared that up. Everybody back to work.
It just seems like Putin assassinating a small time political opponent right now would do him more political damage than good. It's not like Nemtsov was seriously busting his balls, the guy was more likely just trying to make a few bucks and bang a girl half his age. Putin gets smeared by this, when he is trying to survive playing a much bigger game with international players, and the US trying to destroy his countries soft underbelly.
I don't think Putin was in on it.
I'm not sure political damage is of much concern to Mr Putin. Electorate have a short attention span. Opposition is opposition especially in the mind of a dictator. Nemtsov was going to announce last Sunday the proof of ussian involvement in East Ukraine. Its easier to swat them when they only have 1 or 2% of the eletorate rather than say 25 or 30% where assasination becomes much more politically risky.
CIA could of done it but why? Nemtsov was tiny politically but noisy. Where is the American advantage?
Ukraine? They are not going to shoot someone who is on their side.
Another Oligarch or someone else in Putin's government who does not like him? Possibly and genuinely worrying for Putin.
My money is still on Vlad. Russian opposition leaders have a low life expectancy.
The job is done. All other opposition leaders apart from the Communists are shitting their pants. Order is resumed. We know Russia is a facist state run by a dictator. Putin doesn't.
Who else would of done it like that?
A fool would kill him and make a martyr of him.
A smart person, with lots of resources, would frame him for some crime or crimes, discrediting him, and make him disapear as if he took off to escape prosecution.
I don't think Putin is a fool.
Fucking arrogant hypocrit.
... because the murder of a foreign citizen in another country is completely under the remit of His Majesty. Check.
Perhaps "The Bamster" could call on his own AG's office to make sure the 2008 sub prime mess is properly investigated?
Just sayin.
Squid
Putin said it so it must be true. Zero hedge, zero credibility.
Exactly. It's like OJ telling folks he's going to find the real killer.
LOL, Putin saying te murder was "Politt tea cally mote teai vaeted"...no shit, you ordered the hit
Seriously, just like the deja vu assoiated with ther Putin critics, such as Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya
Like Boris, Anna was also characterized as "insignificant", and Putin ws "in charge" of that "investgaton" also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reaction_to_the_assassination...
"In a statement in Dresden, Germany that came three days after the murder, President Vladimir Putin promised a "thorough investigation."[32] Furthermore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
"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]
Hey, Captain Butthole, I see you figured out CTRL-C and CTRL-P.
Congratulations for learning such an advanced skill. Maybe there's hope for you yet. Perhaps someday you won't even need your mommy to wipe your butt for you.
Thanks Shemp
But i see that you have no retort for the established Putin pattern...
Any opposition or critic gets murdered...smells a lot like the third reich
and or Stalin..th great leader for the proliteriat (although hitler hated the use of that word, stalin not so much), when if fact its an oligarchy or plutocracy..only pootie, freinds and mafia benefit
Here you go, Kool-Aid drinker. Get someone to read it to you.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-o...
"The Phony Litvinenko Murder" William Dunkerley (available Amazon)
blog: http://www.omnicompress.com/plmblog/
Litvinenko:
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-old-and-discredited-canard.html
go away then...
Hitler took power via a flase flag. The very idea of Putin killing a washed up clown with a 1% approval rating, and most people under 30 did not even know the guys name, the idea that Putin opened himself up to global criticism by offing the ass clown within sight of Putin's own Kremlin office, is a bit much. We might ask about the 23 year old girl frind from Kiev who flew in and was picked up by him at the airport. From the moment SHE arrived, a series of cars trailed the couple all day and into the evening. The lat trail car was the get away car, he was shot dead, she, the best witness to the crime was left untouched.
Putin did it. Of course nearly every westerner who says this, knows it is not true. But they say it to seek to get the political gain that there is to be gotten.
Who killed this washed up nobody? How the fuck should I know? There were many people with many reasons to knock him off. Not the least of which reside in Kiev and Washington DC. I suspect that his Kiev girlfriend who flew in to stay with him and he dies just a few hours later, has something to do with it.
Occam's razor, Bob. Don't make it any more complicated than it is.
True, but you don't know what it means, much less how to use it...
Dude, this is zero hedge, furk Occam of wot?! look, if you aren't sucking on complicated shit pulled straight out of the wet of your brown-eye, you're just not getting it. Listen, just listen man, tune in to the vibe, the truth is fucking obvious when you do. The truth's in here if you open your eyes up and see what's really going on! It's no fun going against the stupid, why?! It just annoys everyone and gets warm piss all over the wall! So mellow out with the razor stuff man, it's violent and not too cool, and it won't work anyway, because we're way past that, it doesn't even fit reality any more, and you need to realize that and stop pretending its supposed to make sense like that. And that's your problem man, just let go, that shit's not even worth it! Let it go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0
Jack you might want to check out the interview on Red Ice with Veronica Clark "Demystifiying Popular Nazi Conspiracy Theories", re that "Hitler took power via a false flag". Seems he knew nothing about it or the communists apparently , they were all caught off guard by the actions of a lone communist pyromaniac who set several fires that day. Of course they were quick to use it to their advantage but the point is it was,nt deliberate. Good interview with a sound researcher.
Putin- I deplore this senseless act of violence. I found out about it on TV just like the the rest of you. Let me assure the folks we will move heaven and earth to bring these criminals to justice. Now if you'll excuse me I have appointment to wrestle bear without my shirt on.
> "finally rid Russia of shame and tragedy" of politically-motivated murders.
So Putin will be asking the US embassy to close up shop? That would be the logical first step.
but
In the original Russian does that really exempt the CIA?
Nemtcov, a member of the tribe, was a typical oligarch, tief and criminal and corrupt. So what? one less, evry good for the mother Earth.
Nemtsov and his Godfater Berezovsky had always been the most unpopular, if I could use these word at all, figures in Russia. It is funny to read some of you thinking anybody would care about Nemtsov, especially Putin, as if he has nothing else to do. US media is the wrong place to learn about the world but this is what Uncle Sam hopes you would do.
well, i'd rather get shot wetwork style versus getting poisoned with radioactive waste. That is not a good way to go.
Shows you the difference between us and them. We're using unencrypted public email to conduct state business. Ol' Vlady is probably talking to Tessio, who's talking to Rocco, who's talking to....fuhgeddaboudit..
Nemtsov's murder is just like the MH17 Malaysian airliner murder. Funny how Obummer and his stooge Kerry immediately blamed Putin for both murders. A desperate attempt by the West to villify Putin and destabalize Russia who currently threatens the global domination of the dollar.