Boris Nemtsov, leading Putin critic, shot and killed in Moscow

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A top political nemesis of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed early Saturday in central Moscow, Russian police said, one day before an opposition rally was scheduled to take place.

Boris Nemtsov, 55, a former deputy prime minister, was shot four times from a passing car as he was walking on a bridge just outside the Kremlin. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Alexeyeva told reporters on the scene that Nemtsov was walking with a female acquaintance, a Ukrainian citizen, when a vehicle drove up and unidentified assailants shot him dead. The woman wasn't hurt.

Putin, who quickly offered his condolences and called the murder a provocation, ordered Russia's top law enforcement chiefs to personally oversee the probe of Nemtsov's killing.

But the shooting potentially could create a political crisis in Russia, regardless of the motive or who was behind the shooting.

A sharp critic of Putin, Nemtsov assailed the government's inefficiency, rampant corruption and the Kremlin's policy on Ukraine, which has strained Russia-West ties to a degree unseen since Cold War times. The Washington Post reported that Nemtsov had angered Putin's government two years ago when he charged that billions of dollars had been stolen from funds designated for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, his hometown.

He served as a deputy prime minister in the 1990s, and once was seen as a possible successor to Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first elected president.

In condemning what he called Nemtsov's "brutal murder," President Obama urged the Russian government to conduct a "prompt, impartial and transparent investigation."

"Nemtsov was a tireless advocate for his country, seeking for his fellow Russian citizens the rights to which all people are entitled," Obama said in a statement. "I admired Nemtsov’s courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia and appreciated his willingness to share his candid views with me when we met in Moscow in 2009."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Nemtsov committed his life to a more democratic Russia, "and to strong relationships between Russia and its neighbors and partners, including the United States."

Meanwhile, in Russia and elsewhere, reaction and analysis poured in about Nemtsov and the implications of his killing.

Opposition activist Ilya Yashin said on Ekho Moskvy radio that he last spoke with Nemtsov two days before the killing. Nemtsov was working on a report presenting evidence that he believed proved Russia's direct involvement in the separatist rebellion that erupted in eastern Ukraine last year.

Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of backing the rebels there with troops and weapons. Moscow has denied the accusations, but large numbers of sophisticated heavy weapons in the rebels' possession has strained the credibility of its denials.

Yashin said he had no doubt that Nemtsov's murder was politically motivated.

"Boris Nemtsov was a stark opposition leader who criticized the most important state officials in our country, including President Vladimir Putin. As we have seen, such criticism in Russia is dangerous for one's life," he said.

Political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky told Ekho Mosvky radio station that he did not believe that Nemtsov's death would in any way serve Putin's interests.

"But the atmosphere of hatred toward alternative thinkers that has formed over the past year, since the annexation of Crimea, may have played its role," Belkovsky said, referring to the surge of intense and officially endorsed nationalist discourse increasingly prevalent in Russia since it annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.

Irina Khakamada, a prominent opposition figure who co-founded a liberal party with Nemtsov, also blamed a climate of intimidation and warned that the murder could herald a dangerous destabilization.

"It's a provocation that is clearly not in Putin's interests, it's aimed at rocking the situation," she said in remarks carried by RIA Novosti news agency.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement late Friday that "Boris is dead because of the environment of impunity that Vladimir Putin has created in Russia, where individuals are routinely persecuted and attacked for their beliefs, including by the Russian government, and no one is ever held responsible."

Russia's human rights commissioner, Yelena Panfilova, said "it wasn't just a shot in Nemtsov's back, it was a shot in the back of Russia."

Vladimir Ryzhkov, a longtime political ally of Nemtsov, blamed Putin for fueling "the atmosphere of hatred toward those with different views, the atmosphere of violence and aggression that now exists in the country."

He was one of the organizers of the Spring March opposition protest set for Sunday, which comes amid a severe economic downturn in Russia caused by low oil prices and Western sanctions.

Nemtsov said during a radio interview just before his death that it was hard to live under constant intimidation and pressure.

"I won't hide the fact that the opposition is under strong pressure," he said. "Lies are spread about the people, and one has to be a very strong person to cope with all this. I know this from my own experience."

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come on FBD spin this one to say the US government did it :lol:

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The thing is you read about all this whacked stuff and it makes no sense whatsoever for putin to do the things that the US gov and western press attempt to ascribe to him. There is basically every attempt to make him into a demon just like Saddam and Khaddafi, presenting nonsensical stories and just saying hey, you cant trust a madman, this doesnt even need to make sense! Aint that a beat! But if its reported in the western press, its believe by most of the people that read it, regardless of whether there's any more than tangential facts supporting the story. So just like Obama's order on bullets, entirely fake, illegal, should never happen, but just the fact that it was attempted has changed the calculus of the whole situation...

Tell me, what good would it do for Putin to have his most vocal critic murdered at a time where he has the vast majority of his country behind him and applaud the way he's kept russia out of war with NATO, despite how many times they've tried getting him to bite.

Tell me, cui bono, putin's biggest critic being murdered right in front of the kremlin? And there's that mention of the whole problem, that the US and NATO have created and brought into existence and made into a huge fkn international issue - Ukraine. (So have you guys accepted yet that the US/CIA/NATO up and replaced the ukranian government last feb yet?) Guy just so happens to be walking with this Ukranian national when he gets drive by'd? And the Ukranian national, what happened to her?


Opposition activist Ilya Yashin said on Ekho Moskvy radio that he last spoke with Nemtsov two days before the killing. Nemtsov was working on a report presenting evidence that he believed proved Russia's direct involvement in the separatist rebellion that erupted in eastern Ukraine last year.

The move could herald a dangerous destabilization, it was noted.

My my, just who would benefit from such a thing?


I think its rather funny that any "evidence" of russian involvement in ukraine is met with shock and disdain in the western press and treated as if that was a perfect justification to send armament and troops into Ukraine, whereas the scads and scads of evidence pointing to nato, the usa, the cia, did.....why.....eh, nothing to see here? :lol:

Keep in mind that it was Ukrainian and Georgian ethnicities that gave away what was russian lands for eons in Ukraine "on a whim" with zero reason to have done so. (Kruschev was not russian, neither was lenin.)



You guys are far too incurious :razz: :thumbsup:


what in the fuck makes one believe a nonsensical story, outside of


Official™ Story!


its the god's honest truth! we swears!

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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

Putin said that the violent murder of Boris Nemtsov bears marks of contract killing and named it provocative http://t.co/50sSGLxKdW

— TASS (@tassagency_en) February 27, 2015


Putin aint that sloppy, fellas. Remember, he's not a community organizer - if he wanted to disappear someone, it wouldnt be having KGB agents do a drive by in front of the kremlin, of all places. :lol:

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PUTIN TAKES NEMTSOV MURDER UNDER PERSONAL CONTROL

this makes everyone feel better :lol:

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YAROSLAVL, February 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the murder of Yaroslavl regional legislature deputy Boris Nemtsov under articles 105 (murder) and 222 (illegal arms turnover) of the Russian Criminal Code.

According to preliminary data an unknown assailant made at least 7-8 shots at Nemtsov when the latter was walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in downtown Moscow.

An investigative group is working at the site.

The bridge has been closed for traffic.

Read also
Vladimir Putin immediately informed of Boris Nemtsov’s murder in Moscow — spokesman

Investigators are considering all versions when probing into the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and do not rule out it was a contract killing, senior aide of the head of the Main Investigative Department in Moscow Yulia Ivanova told TASS.

Investigators are currently questioning a woman who was with Boris Nemtsov at the moment of his murder, she told journalists.

Six bullet cartridges have been discovered at the site where Nemtsov was killed, Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Alexeyeva said Saturday.

"Six cartridges have been found at the site. Four bullets hit Boris Nemtsov," Alexeyeva told journalists.


Good shots, having him walking next to someone and they managed not to hit her.

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this makes everyone feel better :lol:

:lol: I probably would also if I was the one being framed for it


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov


Notice how the wikipedia page was updated, INSTANTLY, to reflect the western narrative to be.

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but why dont you ask some russians what they thought of this guy :lol:



This dude was a complete piece of shit, liberal, part of the 5th column working for the western powers to be, udaltsov and navalnij should be next. They are complete scumbags anyway, trade their country for 100 western fiat...


-a- cia killed his own friend to charge puttin to mess more.

-b- puttin made cia friend killed to get chess space/time/strengh move.



question : why a man with high mass opinion support feels threated to the point to kill a single target. ?

question : why kill an own insider if he got some influence on 5th colomn....



whatever A or B. the guy had to die, whatever the reason of both parts. it is just a chess movment on the board, consider it like a bishop suppress. the very huge moves are coming.... i dont like it.



prepare accordingly.


This is clearly a NISMAN II - The Sequel, and I'll bet Putin is really pissed that they did this in his front yard.

While it is possible that Putin did this (perhaps knowing it could be passed off as a false flag!), it seems to me this guy Nemtsov is just a second string player, so why bother? Qui bono? Certainly not Putin. This hit smacks of a Mossad false flag.

Looks like the unemployed chosenite Hollywood writers hired by the Anglo Zionist Deep State are pretty low quality -- this FF smacks as a replay of the Nisman hit carried out by the Mossad, which of course was just a sequel to "Je Suis Charlie"

These false flags by the tribe are starting to get boring -- they should fire their writers

Aside - if Putin DIDN'T do this, watch for a perhaps very subtle, but effectve payback... I personally suspect Putin is livid about this and will exact heavy revenge.

In any case, the pace of events is quickening. I sense true desperation on the part of the Anglo Zionists, which is clearly a very dangerous time so make sure you are mentally prepared for what is coming...


Nonetheless, before all the low-octane analysis and clueless reporting starts let’s be clear: Nemtsov was politically so (self- ) marginalized in Russia that he had to go aboard for anyone to notice him (like Kiev). He was politically dead before he was murdered. Thus, there can be no doubt this is a false flag op. Many in Washington are grinning and probably celebrating. No matter. Russians will not be fooled by this kind of cheap and deadly propaganda attack.

Mr Nemtsov was a spent force – he had a real following in the 1990s, where he was briefly a major player. Unlike Navalny, who is opportunistic, smart and frankly dangerous, Nemtsov’s following was largely limited to foreign journalists and a small group of Russian liberals.

Had the Kremlin wanted him out of the way there were other ways – especially in Moscow. A car crash. An (induced) heart attack. Poisons. Why do a public hit within sight of St. Basel’s Cathedral on Red Square so as to provide a public feast for the foreign press picture editors?

The timing is equally suspicious. Perfectly timed to draw maximum attention to the upcoming opposition March which had risked falling flat. The March itself is no conceivable threat to Mr Putin – who now enjoys the sort of popularity common to wartime leaders in any country – but it is the best shot the West has, knowing that

any political murder in Moscow will be systematically attributed to the Kremlin by the tame Western press – whether of a Putin opponent (Politkovskaya) or a fervent supporter (Paul Klebnikov, Forbes). By some odd coincidence, several of these killings took place immediately before President Putin was to address some particularly high-profile international meeting.

The fact that this horrific murder is most beneficial to the anti-Russian factions does not, of course, prove that Washington was in any way involved. It suggests it - which is a very different matter altogether…

There is another – less conspiratorial – theory. The Kiev regime – openly supported by Mr Nemtsov and his followers - is genuinely very unpopular in Russia. Live television coverage of the savage bombardment of Lugansk and Donetsk has evoked some strong passions. There is a hardline, nationalist faction, and Russia can be a violent place. It is entirely possible that someone decided to take revenge for the people of Novorossiya, answering one barbaric crime with another.

There is only one certainty: this murder will be exploited by the Western press which will largely not even bother to formally attribute it to the Kremlin – but simply do a quick montage – Red Square, Putin opponent lying dead. It’s an easy sell.

Now, let the storm begin……


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I don't know who rid Russia of one more prominent traitor, and neither do any here. So I'll just say whoever did it is owed a shot of good vodka by all here.

Burn in hell, Boris, and may the traitors of Kiev quickly join you.

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What's that? Didnt see this one just have come out before this murder then :razz:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/27/us-china-ukraine-idUSKBN0LV0H120150227


Reuters) - Western powers should take into consideration Russia's legitimate security concerns over Ukraine, a top Chinese diplomat has said in an unusually frank and open display of support for Moscow's position in the crisis.

Qu Xing, China's ambassador to Belgium, was quoted by state news agency Xinhua late on Thursday as blaming competition between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western powers to "abandon the zero-sum mentality" with Russia.

He said the "nature and root cause" of the crisis was the "game" between Russia and Western powers, including the United States and the European Union.

He said external intervention by different powers accelerated the crisis and warned that Moscow would feel it was being treated unfairly if the West did not change its approach.

"The West should abandon the zero-sum mentality, and take the real security concerns of Russia into consideration," Qu was quoted as saying.

His comments were an unusually public show of understanding from China for the Russian position. China and Russia see eye-to-eye on many international diplomatic issues but Beijing has generally not been so willing to back Russia over Ukraine.

China has also been cautious not to be drawn into the struggle between Russia and the West over Ukraine's future, not wanting to alienate a key ally.

It has said it would like to continue to develop "friendly cooperation" with Ukraine, and respects the ex-Soviet state's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Qu's comments coincide with talks between the United States and its European allies over harsher sanctions against Moscow.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western powers of trying to dominate and impose their ideology on the rest of world. The United States and European delegations slammed Moscow for supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Qu said Washington's involvement in Ukraine could "become a distraction in its foreign policy".

"The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is its resources are limited, and it will be to some extent hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs, " Qu was quoted as saying.

Ukraine's military accused Russia last week of sending more tanks and troops towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk, expanding their presence on what it fears could be the next battlefront.

sorry fellas, a little homework turns up the real story

if you want the international criminal cartel's convenience theory, that's what the mainstream media is for.







consensus from reading a bunch of russian thought on the matter is that either:
-cia/mossad did/arranged it, or
-patriotic russian national did it, because a lot of people fucking hated this guy.

either way, most of them do not care that someone under house arrest that has been going around moscow distributing pro american and pro kiev propaganda has been taken down.

but most dont think for a single second that putin arranged it, because there was absolutely nothing for him to gain by such a public execution-hit. plenty of dark alleys in moscow where it could be quietly done, or simply had him run the fug over would have been far more benign and easier if the real goal was to kill a russian dissident.

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shot 5x?

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/assets/11549255/PUTIN.jpg

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john mccain....friend of russia? (harf harf, friend of usa, for that matter? :lol: )
https://localtvkdvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/s044051302.jpg?w=770
nemtsov with some of the usurping faction of ukraine...
http://photo.unian.net/preview/500/011/11334.jpg

ok ok....body again...

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/assets/11549255/PUTIN.jpg

guy looks like he's got a rather large gut


look like a fitness enthusiast?

http://img.aktuell.ru/en_russia_news/images/nemzow-nemtsovru3_4.jpg
http://stevehynd.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mos.jpg
https://larussophobe.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/2938899561.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wMTt-ElPs18/UZcRjWXkROI/AAAAAAAAHf0/XhyqR24Pebc/s1600/15.jpg

how quickly does it take one to get that fat?

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSL0zbhyr5hv84euFnudUlZ7tLqHYWI7-6lqAB9gMEORU__gCuQ


-He had been working on report about Russia's involvement in Ukraine
-Hours before death he condemned Putin's 'mad and deadly' policy of war

so basically it sounds like john mccain himself put the words in his mouth :lol:

anyone who knows anything about Ukraine knows that the US & NATO are the aggressors in this war they are waging against russia.

pain in the ass, that picture evidence.


only in certain countries can that be completely ignored by the government :lol: unfortunately we live in them.

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geezus criminy FBD.....hello??? wall O China text and short attention span here! :x






I was going to comment - I bet we are not hearing the true story behind this shooting :)

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its a good thing the internet isnt really going anywhere :lol: (we hope)

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the NSA is monitoring my viewing habits because I interact with YOU.


[-( my internet won't be here forever











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:lol: the NSA is grabbing your shit regardless of who you talk to, dont kid yourself Hal :lol:

they hate us for our freedoms, remember.

(just didnt specify who they was...who do you think they is....BANKSTERS...)

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I should have known when I was downloading that Hobbit movie and a pop-up prompt said - to view this movie you must install the FBDplayer, click here




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