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Boris Nemtsov, outspoken Putin critic, shot dead in Moscow |
2015-02-28 |
[CNN] Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed Friday night after he was shot seven or eight times from a car on a bridge he was walking across, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement Saturday. If a non-entity like Kirchner can do it so can the Tsar of all the Remaining Russias... He was deputy prime minister in the late 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin and had been one of current President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... 's most vocal critics. Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov, Russian state broadcaster, Russia Today, said early Saturday. A criminal case has been opened for murder and weapons trafficking, the investigative committee said. The bridge was not far from the Kremlin in a part of the city normally busy on a Friday night. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 Shot while resisting suicide. |
Posted by: charger 2015-02-28 12:31 |
#5 Envy in White House circles. Not to worry, there is a Clinton in the race. Russia's back where Ronald Reagan located it 30 years ago Hey EC, the 80s called, asked if we need some balls. Hey, wait. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-02-28 12:12 |
#4 It's old style Russian politics: If you speak out, you bleed out. |
Posted by: Grunter 2015-02-28 11:35 |
#3 To kill a man at the doorstep of the Kremlin, in an area heavily watched over by security cameras, on a busy Friday night... this sends a message: IF YOU ARE AGAINST US YOU ARE NOT SAFE. NEVER. NOWHERE. Russia's back where Ronald Reagan located it 30 years ago. |
Posted by: European Conservative 2015-02-28 11:19 |
#2 Envy in White House circles. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-28 09:05 |
#1 Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov ... I wonder if he told them to take the cannoli? |
Posted by: OldSpook 2015-02-28 07:12 |