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Preparing the ground for Russian Maidan? Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov killed in the center of Moscow

RT
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:37 UTC

Famous Russian politician Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in the center of Moscow, according to Tass news agency.

"Boris Nemtsov was shot four times in the center of Moscow at Vasilyevsky spusk. Investigation team is working at the scene," Tass reports citing police sources.

A law enforcement source told Interfax news agency that a white vehicle approached Nemtsov, fired the shots, and rushed away.

Police have dubbed the operation to catch the killers 'Interception.'

Nemtsov's colleague has confirmed his death.

"Unfortunately, I'm currently looking at the body of Nemtsov on the Zamoskvoretskiy bridge [nearVasilyevsky spusk]," a fellow member of his RPR-Parnas party, Ilya Yashin, confirmed to RIA Novosti. "I see the body, and a lot of police."

Nemtsov served as Russian deputy prime minister under former President Boris Yeltsin. Though he was more involved in business than politics in recent years, Nemtsov voiced opposition to President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the government and its policies. Since 2012, he co-chaired the pro-business party RPR-PARNAS (Republican Party of Russia - People's Freedom Party).

Nemtsov's assassination comes just one day ahead of the Vesna ("Spring") opposition rally slated for March 1 in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was "immediately informed" about Nemtsov's assassination, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

"Putin has stressed that this brutal murder has all [the] signs of a contract murder and is extremely provocative," Peskov said.

"The president has expressed his deep condolences to the family of tragically deceased Nemtsov," he added.

Comment: It looks like a calculated murder, indeed. And since Nemtsov was a bird of a feather with Navalny and Khodorkovsky, we wonder if the purpose of the kill is to falsely point an accusing finger towards Putin.

Reader Comments

griffin · 2015-02-28T02:43:07Z

The Saker's reaction...

is my reaction too. Read what he said at [Link] .

Ursh · 2015-02-28T03:10:51Z

who will profit by his dead? not Putin, enough said

lezbo76 · 2015-02-28T03:14:28Z

This feels similiar to the circumstances surrounding the death of Alberto Nisman in Argentina. His case against the president was weak, but his suspicious death made the president look guilty by innuendo.

griffin · 2015-02-28T04:48:04Z

Nisman was assassinated by the Israeli MOSSAD because he found that it had committed the bombing he was investigating. Far too inconvenient.

SAJ · 2015-02-28T18:18:08Z

Putin spoke of false flag in 2012 - Opposition is looking to turn someone into "involuntary martyr" [Link]

"Concerning ... false flag attacks at rallies and such. I hope no one will step over that line, everything will be kept within legal limits. And [hopefully] the attempts to provoke law enforcement [response] would be in vain. Because the forces you mentioned really want violent clashes. And keep trying to start them.

They are even ready to sacrifice someone in order to blame the government. I know this method and tactic, they've been trying to use it for the past ten years

[this method] mostly used by those working from abroad.

I'm telling you - I know this is a fact.

They're even looking for a someone "to be made a martyr". A famous person of some sort.

They will whack him themselves, sorry [for the phrasing], and then blame the government. There are people there capable of this, I'm not exaggerating here

I hope that people who really want to improve our country and, to this end, use their rights of assembly, of free speech, do not fall for this ploy." [..]

SAJ · 2015-02-28T19:02:44Z

The Murder of Boris Nemtsov. A 'Spring' in the Air? Cui Bono? [Link]

"Likely reasons for the killing at this time

*This killing took place to create the conditions needed to promote the dissent necessary, for the usual suspects -NATO nations and their plot to create yet another destabilization project

*This killing took place to sow the seeds of a western backed Russian spring! Cue the protests. Cue the ‘human rights’ NGO’s making the western media rounds.Hell, even cue the pussy riot skanks!

*A spring or colour revolution always needs a ‘mascot’ and this looks to me like mascot creation! We should be seeing signs printed with the face of this man on them very soon, being carried, of course by western bought & paid for protestors! The signs will include some English wording enabling the western media to promote the agenda and draw in the western media audience.

*This man was always a tool of bankers &war mongers. His death, at this time, benefits Western or Atlantacists interests.

*Boris Nemstov was to old to be the front person for a colour/spring revolution. This type of revolution is ALWAYS presented as beginning with disenfranchised youth- Alexei Navalny is clearly better suited to this role.

The "People's Freedom Party'? As if ? That should appeal to the gullible western audience! Freedom always means fascism. ..

Flashback to 1997-

Boris Nemtsov, 37, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow, who became the darling of Western bankers for his aggressive privatization program, was appointed yesterday to Mr. Yeltsin's cabinet as a first deputy prime minister. ....

Mr. Nemtsov has been assigned the daunting task of restructuring Russia's powerful monopolies ...

Restructuring powerful monopolies? To the benefit of certain ( Jewish) Oligarchs and their banker backers - Flashback to December 2010: Mikhail Khodorkovsky & Platon Lebedev found guilty of embezzlement [Link]

"In 2003, when Khodorkovsky was arrested, he signed over all his shares in Yukos, to one Jacob Rothschild, of the Rothschild banker and Oil family.

If all the top Yukos managers were unable to carry out the role, Lord Rothschild would take over, the company official told Kommersant on condition of anonymity"

But of course.... "Boris Nemtsov, 52, is one of Russia's veteran liberal politicians. He was born in Sochi on the Black Sea, to Jewish parents, and studied radiophysics in the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod" Explains the 'darling of western bankers' description-

In 2004 he supported Ukraine's Orange Revolution and became an economic adviser for Viktor Yushchenko,.....

This puts Boris Nemstov firmly in bed with Boris Berezovsky

The boyish-looking English-speaking governor, who impressed Western financiers by pioneering the privatization of farmland and shops in his region, told reporters that Mr. Yeltsin has promised him "complete carte blanche" to push ahead with reforms.

That was confirmed by Mr. Yeltsin himself ... told Mr. Nemtsov in a meeting shown on Russian television yesterday. "No one [else] has been appointed yet. All candidates to the government will be agreed with the two first deputy premiers. I will not accept anything without you."

Mr Nemstov & Chubais were clearly running the show and Yeltsin absolutely knew that! Hence the no one appointed without the approval of Nemstov and Chubais and no decisions with out their approval, either!

* * *

Three years ago, Mr. Yeltsin predicted Mr. Nemtsov would become the Russian president some day. The Russian media have described him as a "born politician." But his new cabinet post could be "suicidal" for his career, Mr. Nemtsov said yesterday. "I've written off my political future," he said.

Yeltsin- the drunken western puppet, didn't choose the man that man he pronounced would be the Russian President- Clearly Nemstov was foisted on Yeltsin! ...

The media is pushing this story as if it was Putin himself, that pulled the trigger. But the fact is, from all my reading, there is zero proof of Putin being connected, having knowledge of or benefiting from the death of this man.

There is no doubt that this crime was carefully planned. The location and timing of the killing indicated that as well. The investigation found out that Boris Nemtsov was going with his female friend to his apartment, which is located close to the murder scene. The organizers and the executers apparently knew his route,” Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, told journalists" [...]

SAJ · 2015-02-28T19:28:45Z

"Washington has failed to make up a global anti-Russian coalition," Lavrov said at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy. "We are engaged in a dialogue with the majority of the countries. Support of the world community for Russia’s balanced policy is growing," [Link]

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Ukraine crisis: Top Chinese diplomat backs Putin, says West should 'abandon zero-sum mentality' [Link]

Luschnig · 2015-02-28T19:50:42Z

Afterwards

The question of who killed Nemtsov pales against what is going to happen next in Russia. Just as the assassination of the Archduke became the prelude to a war that consumed some sixteen million lives and altered for the worse the course of European history. The murder of this politician could be the prelude to much more ominous events, an unpredictable regime change in Russia as catastrophic as Libya's or a government crackdown even more repressive than Egypt's. While there's ill concealed glee at the possibility of ousting Obama's bete noire in east Europe, there could be more terrible surprises ahead for everyone if this situation gets out of hand.