[Newsbot]

Title: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
Category: Political
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2015-02-27 23:07:14

[Freakinoldguy]

Another of Putin's opponents mysteriously killed. I wonder who could have done that?

To anybody who still believes the bullshit that he was only a poor working class KGB clerk had better give their head a shake because, Vlad the Terrible is starting to head into Stalin territory with his megalomania and desire to subjugate Europe under the heel of Mother Russia.

[Jabberwalker]

I'm waiting for the Krem!in bullshit machine to blame the Americans for the hit ... or the E.U. ... or Angela Merkel herself. It's so predictable you can set your watch by that crap.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

To anybody who still believes the bullshit that he was only a poor working class KGB clerk had better give their head a shake

I'm still waiting for him or one his to declare to the world that he is long lost scion of the Romanov family.....du-du-tuh-daaaaaaa Tsar Vladimir, inheritor of the mantle of Constantinople and Rome.

[Jabberwalker]

Wow! ...a Caesar AND an action figure!

[Strutz]

Thousands march in Moscow to mourn Boris Nemtsov

$1:

Carrying flowers, portraits and signs that said "I am not afraid," more than 20,000 people somberly marched Sunday in Moscow to mourn opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, whose slaying on the streets of the capital has shaken Russia's beleaguered opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has marginalized and intimidated his political opponents, jailing some and driving others into exile, since mass anti-Putin protests swept Moscow in 2011 and 2012. Nemtsov, 55, was among the few prominent opposition figures who had refused to be cowed.

$1:

Ilya Yashin, a friend and fellow opposition leader, said he hoped the killing would not frighten people.

"Essentially it is an act of terror. It is a political murder aimed at frightening the population, or the part of the population that supported Nemtsov and did not agree with the government," Yashin told The Associated Press. "I hope we won't get scared, that we will continue what Boris was doing."

The march could energize the opposition, but it could also prove to be a brief expression of emotions that dissipates in a climate of fear.

full article:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/thousands-march-in-moscow-to-mourn-boris-nemtsov-1.2258775


So which will it be? Opposition energized or will fear win?

[Thanos]

Maybe we should have the Saudis increase oil production in order to hurt Putin more. There really shouldn't be too many negative consequences to Canada if we do that.

[BartSimpson]

In a total coincidence absolutely none of the surveillance cameras arrayed around the Kremlin managed to catch this assassination which took place within spitting distance of the Kremlin.

Total coincidence.

Good thing that Putin says he's going to personally oversee the investigation into this assassination.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Good thing that Putin says he's going to personally oversee the investigation into this assassination.

He has such a wonderful track record too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatio ... troversies

[BartSimpson]

Putin's had Nemtsov's girlfriend arrested and detained as a witness.

Because you always arrest and detain witnesses.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Putin's had Nemtsov's girlfriend arrested and detained as a witness.

Because you always arrest and detain witnesses.

Easiest way to make sure learn that the witness saw nothing.

Actually, that she walked away pretty much convinces me it was a contract hit. Who ordered it . .. that's the $64,000 question. I wonder if Russians will finally see what Russia has become.

[BartSimpson]

Reportedly the Russian language media is reporting that Ukrainian fascists or the CIA is behind the assassination.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Reportedly the Russian language media is reporting that Ukrainian fascists or the CIA is behind the assassination.

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[Jabberwalker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Reportedly the Russian language media is reporting that Ukrainian fascists or the CIA is behind the assassination.

Its really hard to imagine what either party could possibly gain from killing Putin's most vocal opponent.

... shooting Putin, I could understand ...

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Reportedly the Russian language media is reporting that Ukrainian fascists or the CIA is behind the assassination.

Its really hard to imagine what either party could possibly gain from killing Putin's most vocal opponent.

... shooting Putin, I could understand ...

It really isn't, if you Grok Russians. A few years ago(12 or 15, when Putin came to the Kremlin), there was a meeting of the 100 or so richest 'oligarchs' to discuss the state of Russian affairs and how the 'new' Post Soviet Russia should progress.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the wealthiest man in Russia and oil tycoon (#16 richest in the world), thought out loud that the Russian system of buying power and people in the Dumas selling that power should end. Russia should start a new era of Western style business to go along with it's Western style Democracy. Business should be allowed a fair and open market in which to flourish! This would be a great leap forward in the Russian economy and would bring untold riches!

Shortly after, the Russian government arrested Khodorkovsky for fraud, brought his company Yukos up on tax evasion charges, and eventually convicted Khodorkovsky of embezzlement and a few other charges. His company, Yukos, was broken up and divided amongst the other Oligarchs. He served 8 years of a 13 year sentence.

Now, when you consider the lengths Putin will go to in order to maintain his monopoly on the power and influence he sells, it makes perfect sense to put a few bullets in a political opponent he has already marginalized and is no longer a political threat - if you weigh the message it sends to any other political opponents that may take a run at him.