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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 08:48 AM Mar 2015

Boris Nemtsov murder: Thousands march in Moscow

Source: BBC

Thousands of people are marching in central Moscow to honour opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on Friday.

He was due to lead an opposition march on Sunday but his supporters are instead mourning his death.

...

Opposition supporters have been gathering at a point not far from the Kremlin. The first marchers are on their way to the spot on Great Moskvoretsky Bridge where Mr Nemtsov was killed.

Several thousand people were also reported to be marching in St Petersburg.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31677506

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Boris Nemtsov murder: Thousands march in Moscow (Original Post) jakeXT Mar 2015 OP
RIP, Nemtsov, and may the oppostion stay strong. K&R Jefferson23 Mar 2015 #1
Murdering the opposition is the cowardly way tomsaiditagain Mar 2015 #2
I disagree magical thyme Mar 2015 #3
LOL. You mean Putin could have made it look more like a KGB hit. tabasco Mar 2015 #7
he could have made it look not like a hit at all. magical thyme Mar 2015 #9
You betcha! Healthy male with no serious disease falls over dead. Body cremated by authorities. tabasco Mar 2015 #10
or is killed in a car accident magical thyme Mar 2015 #11
Hahahahahahaha! tabasco Mar 2015 #12
ROFL snooper2 Mar 2015 #13
Kiev asks to let Nemtsov’s murder witness leave for Ukraine MattSh Mar 2015 #4
Her lawyer has spoken on her behalf, she has given the witness account, and she is the one Jefferson23 Mar 2015 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author tabasco Mar 2015 #6
That's life in a kleptocracy.... paleotn Mar 2015 #5

tomsaiditagain

(105 posts)
2. Murdering the opposition is the cowardly way
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 10:41 AM
Mar 2015

Putin has his name written all over this. He's a bully and a coward all at the same time. KGB aint gone nowhere with this freak around.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
3. I disagree
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 10:54 AM
Mar 2015

To me, it looks more like it was done by an enemy of Putin to cause him problems. Putin could have had him assassinated in a way to make it look like an accident or suicide. It seems unlikely he would do it in broad daylight right at his own doorstep, so to speak.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
7. LOL. You mean Putin could have made it look more like a KGB hit.
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:35 AM
Mar 2015

Instead, he did it in a way that his defenders can claim, "Dear innocent Vlad wouldn't have done it this way."

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
9. he could have made it look not like a hit at all.
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 12:00 PM
Mar 2015

He has plenty of enemies, including those who would like to see a "Russian Spring" and would do anything to further destabilize Russia.

And certainly he would have known of the likely outcome, what with 10s of thousands rallying today.

Even former President Gorbachev believes it was an attempt to destabilize Russia. Not that any other governments would ever try to do something like to any other countries...oh, wait a minute.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
10. You betcha! Healthy male with no serious disease falls over dead. Body cremated by authorities.
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 01:13 PM
Mar 2015

In other words, a KGB hit. LOL!



 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
11. or is killed in a car accident
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 03:04 PM
Mar 2015

Your cartoons are very clever

Really, I'm done with this. Better things to do with my time than argue with neocon shills.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
12. Hahahahahahaha!
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 12:15 PM
Mar 2015

Thanks for a morning LOLOL!

I've never been called a neocon shill before. That's RICH!

MattSh

(3,714 posts)
4. Kiev asks to let Nemtsov’s murder witness leave for Ukraine
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:30 AM
Mar 2015

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Ukraine’s foreign ministry has referred to the Russian authorities a note with a request to let Anna Duritskaya, a Ukrainian national who was a witness of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, leave for Ukraine, Gennady Breskalenko, adviser on consular issues of the Ukrainian embassy to Russia, said on Sunday.

"A relevant note requests her letting go to Ukraine," he told the Ekhvo Moskcy radio station.

Nemtsov, 55, was shot dead while walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge overnight to Saturday. Duritskaya was accompanying him at the moment.

Russia’s Investigations Committee said earlier of Sunday addition investigatory actions would be conducted with Duritskaya, who was an eyewitness of the assassination.

According to media reports, Duritskaya has refused from the witness security programme and wants to return to Ukraine.

http://tass.ru/en/world/780305

So, by all accounts, she's an important witness, and Ukraine asks that she be allowed to leave? Don't they even suspect that such a request will raise major suspicions?

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
8. Her lawyer has spoken on her behalf, she has given the witness account, and she is the one
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:42 AM
Mar 2015

who has asked Ukraine to make clear to Russia she wants to return to Ukraine.

Response to tomsaiditagain (Reply #2)

paleotn

(17,947 posts)
5. That's life in a kleptocracy....
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:33 AM
Mar 2015

... kelptocracy, plutocracy...sans the politically motivated murders, I don't see much difference between them and us. After nearly 50 years of Cold War, we find ourselves damn near in the same spot.

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