'...Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called Nemtsov a friend and “a bridge between Ukraine and Russia.” He said on Twitter that he is sure those responsible for Nemtsov's death will be found.
"Shocked. Boris was killed. Hard to believe this. I do not doubt that the murderers will be punished,” Poroshenko said.'
'... Though he had been more involved in business than politics since 2003, he was a critic of the Russian government.
Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov killed in the center of Moscow
Islamists had threatened to kill him.
Islamists had threatened to kill him.
No threat to Putin
“With all due respect to the memory of Boris Nemtsov, in
political terms he did not pose any threat to the current Russian
leadership or Vladimir Putin. If we compare popularity levels,
Putin’s and the government’s ratings and so on, in general Boris
Nemtsov was just a little bit more than an average citizen,”
Peskov said on Saturday.'http://rt.com/news/236387-reaction-provocation-nemtsov-muder/
Russian Spring activist
'Nemtsov, 55, has been in Russian politics for over two decades. He gained popularity as a governor to Nizhny Novgorod region, staying in the office from 1991 to 1997. He served as energy minister and deputy prime minister under former President Boris Yeltsin, while being regarded at some point as his successor. After 1998 he participated in the creation of several liberal movements and parties, serving as a Member of Parliament.
Since 2003 he was more involved in business than politics.
However, Nemtsov voiced opposition to President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the government and its policies. Since 2012, he had co-chaired the liberal 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....'
http://rt.com/news/236363-nemtsov-killed-politician-moscow/
'..At the time of the attack, Mr Nemtsov was walking along a bridge with a Ukrainian woman, who was uninjured in the shooting. She is now being questioned by police.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2972813/Russian-opposition-politician-Boris-Nemtsov-shot-dead-Moscow-street.html
Other voices?
'Russia, he believes, is the only country that can save Christianity from liberals and Jews. That he has become an embarrassment to the regime of Vladimir Putin seems obvious, as he now wanders around giving interviews and making statements to the press about how the Russian government is abandoning its fighting volunteers and patriots in Ukraine. He does at least verbally seem to recognize Putin as the “commander in chief” of the Russian armed forces, but...'
' In his latest embarrassment for the Kremlin, Girkin tempts fate by calling upon Russia to openly recognize that it is engaged in war in Ukraine – in other words, to admit reality – something the Kremlin has thus far refused to do. Girkin views the war in Ukraine as a “civil war,” in the sense that he does not recognize Ukraine as an independent country, and fighting cannot therefore be taking place between two different countries. Ukraine was part of “one great country” (i.e. the Soviet Union), and all war is now happening “within Russia.”
Evil Politik?
'That
line of investigation would examine whether Mr. Nemtsov, a 55-year-old
former first deputy prime minister and longtime leader of the
opposition, had become a “sacrificial victim” to rally support for
opponents of the government, the Investigative Committee of the
Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.
The
statement, the fullest official response to Mr. Nemtsov’s killing so
far, said the police were pursing half a dozen leads in the case, the
highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of Mr. Putin.
------- Jihad death threats,---------- IS-Chechnya?
'The committee also cited the possibility that Islamic extremists had killed Mr. Nemtsov over his position on the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, saying that security forces had been aware of threats against him from Islamist militants.
The
committee also said that “radical personalities” on one or another side
of the Ukrainian conflict might may have been responsible. The
statement said the police were also considering possible business or
personal disputes as motives.
“The
investigation is considering several versions,” the statements said.
The first it listed was: “a murder as a provocation to destabilize the
political situation in the country, where the figure of Nemtsov could
have become a sort of sacrificial victim for those who stop at nothing
to achieve their political goals.”
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? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/27/american-atheist-blogger-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh
'A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to
death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, after he
allegedly received threats from Islamists....'
'...hardline Islamist groups started to protest against other campaigning bloggers, calling a series of nationwide strikes to demand their deaths, accusing them of blasphemy.
The secular government of the Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, reacted by arresting some atheist bloggers. ...'
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