A flurry of speculation and finger-pointing erupted today after former Russian Deputy Premier Boris Nemtsov was shot to death in Moscow, just days before a scheduled speech.
Nemtsov’s lawyer has since claimed he had gone to the police recently about threats he’d received on social media, but that the police had apparently done nothing to protect him.
Nemtsov was an MP in the regional parliament of Yaroslavl, and heavily involved in the opposition. His speech was expected to address the ongoing economic problems Russia has faced since the price of oil dropped.
While US media tried was quickly trying to pass it off as a Russian government assassination, Itina Khakamada, a top ally of Nemtsov in the opposition, said the killing was “clearly not in Putin’s interest. It’s aimed at rocking the situation.”
The timing seems to support that, as less than 48 hours before a high-profile rally Nemtsov was scheduled to speak at, the killing ensures the rally will get more international coverage.
There is a paucity of evidence so far, though the Russian state media said surveillance cameras at the site of the killing had identified the license plate of a vehicle in which the gunman escaped.
Nemtsov had ties to Ukraine as well, and had served as an economic adviser to Viktor Yuschcenko. He was walking with an unnamed Ukrainian woman at the time he was killed.
error here:
“While US media tried was quickly trying to pass it off as a Russian government assassination…”
Two's a pattern?
Gareth Porter investigated the JCC bombing in Argentina for years, said Alberto Nisman's case against Iran was a "hack job" regardless of what ultimately may have happened to Nisman. I conclude that Nisman was thus worth more to the Israeli narrative as a corpse than was his 'case' against Iran: He was variously cast as a martyr to that case (Praeger, I believe, and probably Hannity) and as nuisance or enemy to other Argentinians in gov't. But though his case was crap, now one might expect there to be true believers in it.
Coincidentally, Nuland got her Yatz in Kiev, said State sucked $5 billion out of you for Ukraine, and the Neocon narrative included e.g. 'Russian invasion of Ukraine.' This last bit involved a lot of crying wolf. E.g., Russians stepped over the line in the sandbar, NATO called outdated satellite photos evidence of Russian military exercises too-close-to-the-border, etc. Apparently journalists were getting hip to the scam.
So was Nemtsov another Nisman?
"among the few Russian statesman who was a vocal critic of the Annexation of Crimea by Russia. … saying the people of Crimea and not Russian legislators should decide in which country they should reside.[30]"
Well, there was a referendum. Whose narratives did Nemtsov's most coincide with? Who'd care that he agreed with Neocons about their Ukraine Schtick if he weren't just whacked?
Good thinking
"NATO called outdated satellite photos evidence of Russian military exercises too-close-to-the-border, etc"
I need a reference!
By now there could be a list, I'm sure. After two clearly in memory, I was satisfied there was crap being thrown to see what sticks.
Stepped across the sandbar, prompting a declaration-of-victory from Kiev: http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/15/ukraine-spins-…
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/04/10/russia-nato-ph…
Russian officials have confirmed the photos are authentic, but the narrative is not, saying the images were actually taken back in August of 2013 during the Combat Commonwealth military drills.
The drills were held along the Ukrainian border, but embarrassingly enough actually included Ukrainian troops, as Ukraine and Russia were on good terms before last month’s regime change.
2 correction to the article: the unknown ukrainian woman is a top modeland her name was quoted by russian press.She was not hurt and was already questioned by police.The ally of Nemtsov is not itina Khakhamada but Irina.
Nemtsov is in the opposition for years, and was not dangerous for the Kremlin.More over there is an untold agreement in Russia that people who were in the power form a sort of untouchable cast.Even a guy like Luzhkov (after years of corruption) is still in good yealth and live mostly abroad.If I was James Bond Icould think about 3 directions : personal live of Nemtsov, ukrainian SBU acting for USA in order to provoke split in society, and maybe a crazy checken who consider that Nemtsov bring arm to the reputation of Russia.a sort of revenge for honor).
Ditz's referral to LA times article–disgusting to read clap trap anti Russian B'S.
A new version of Russian tv channel RBK (where the daughter of the victim works) : the murder was a signal to Putin.Putin was demonized for months by the western press but he was for normal relations with the west.In his inner circle there are forces for hard line with the west,for a new iron curtain, for a real invasion in Ukraine.They are interested in the power and the money.It is a clear signal to Putin. That is their conclusion.My conclusion is if true and the west do not see that signal (as usual) there will bad consequences in a near future.
Empire USA — Is Russia our next sucker?
Before the Communist Revolution of 1917, Russia was ruled by a King who used a fake morality that motivated everyone to enrich themselves upon the misery of those in a lower class, which caused all the wealth to migrate upward toward the rich nobility. And it worked quite well for over a thousand years, it being the prevailing morality, to be predigest against those in a lower class and seek to enslave them.
Then came communism and everyone forced to do the reverse, to enrich themselves upon the misery of those in a higher class, for the rich ruling class lost all their wealth, lost all control of government and lost the greatest glory of all, to amass wealth by controlling the means of production.
Problem is, communism will work only if everyone is in agreement that we deserve less, only if everyone achieved happiness by passing their excessive wealth down to a lower class where it could do the most good.
So, now that capitalism rules Russia, now that everyone is again enriching themselves upon the misery of a lower class, in grave danger are they of being overthrown by the Western powers. For green with envy is all the world toward Western society, for enrichment upon the misery of others has reached such an absolute perfection that the educated upper half is able to hoard all the wealth and enslave by poverty the lower half of a most greed driven society.
Another US false flag operation? I wonder.
You call religion fake morality ?
Let me see . . . John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Paul Wellstone . . . the USA is used to offing leaders that threaten the war agenda, so any blaming Putin for this is pure hypocrisy! Who profits here in the theater of the world opinion? It's just another bone for the witless and another death for the liars!
It's certainly not in Putin's interest but that doesn't mean it's unrelated to the fake rebellion in Ukraine. Some of the people behind Putin might have got nervous or it could indeed have been a false flag operation designed ultimately to bring Putin down. He has, in effect, double-crossed his US neocon backers and is now a major liability to them. This, combined with a ceasefire which Putin seems to be respecting, could mean that breaking point has been reached in Russia and the tide is turning against Putin. Significantly, Nemtsov's theme was to be the effect of the low oil price, which is itself, of course, the Saudi contribution to bringing Putin down.
> He has, in effect, double-crossed his US neocon backers and is now a major liability to them.
Woah this is getting more and more unhinged. I am waiting for Kenny to talk about the lizar people any moment now.
Just caught the evening news on NBC. They're already going crazy with this story and will milk it for all it's worth. Naturally, they're already blaming it on Putin.
What's going to unite Neocon and those with some vague suspicion of them is a witch in common. Conspiracy theory is a vehicle for that when disparate groups agree on a witch. So, whatever actually happened, it is a positive boon for them to have more or less useless opposition to their witch die violently.
Nemtsov was worse then useless. He was womanizer, alcoholic and forever seeking an issue to latch on and make money. Who was paying his salary? Of course he was paid by various NGO funds. Then Ukraine happened and again, all hands on deck, and as useless as Nemtsov was — he became involved, travelling frequently to Ukraine and meeting with "activists", organizing events, etc.
What seems troubling here is the following. He was truly a marginal personality. He was disliked, even in the NGO community that will not put on the show of mourning for him. I do not believe that he would have brought out people to protest against "war" in Ukraine — just the opposite, police had to worry more about the counter protests. Being truly the tragic figure of a failed young politician who played on the card of working with Western activism — but not being good at it, he was becoming a nuisance. Now, he is suddenly 'prominent'!! One cannot but feel sorry for such confused and lost lives, who instead of focusing on their true potential, allowed themselves to drift in political sideshows. Not having any support in public for his politics he increasingly became dependent on foreign funding for survival. My first suspicion fell on Ukrainian intelligence that was courting him lately — or he sought them. Crude as they are — and desperate as they are, I can see them eliminating a person with no credibility in Russia. It also makes little sense that the Ukrainian lady with him was left alive even though she is a witness. She could be an accomplice who made sure his whereabouts were known to assassins at the time where there would be few people going over that bridge late. If indeed he was truly worried about his safety — he most certainly would not put himself at risk in that manner.
It is really yellow journalism of the worst kind to call him "an opposition figure". One would imagine that to be of any standing in opposition one needs a constituency. The only constituency he, and a number of similar figures have are few thousand of NGO-sponsored and funded activists — to often young people with rather vague knowledge of who in fact is running and financing their clubs, civil society groups or study groups in "democracy' or "human rights". Even that naïve constituency has been sobered up following the campaign of vicious demonizing of Russia and its leadership. This has been for most of them that grew up in post cold-war Russia, an unpleasant wake up call
Did you say "a Womanizer"? Oh; Oh; all kinds of red flags just went up! (Hell hath no fury.)
Won't it be a surprise if the Russians apprehend the killers? Who has factored in the possible ability of the Russian police? Then that story will be immediately dead. Just as when the Russians claimed to solve the mystery of Malaysian Flight 17 and to present proof, our news sources dried up totally —- the average American asking, "Wasn't Flight 17 flying over the south Indian Ocean?". I am actually embarrassed at the gullibility of the average American.
If/when they do, I don't expect our presstitutes (thanks, PCR) to believe them.
Here is the video. Feb 28, 2015 Nemtsov's Assassination on CCTV
This surveillance footage features the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. The fatal shots were fired at 23:31:14, when a WSV was overtaking Boris and Anna crossing the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. The murderer can be seen getting into a car and fleeing the crime scene a few seconds later.
http://youtu.be/nyTsRQ1MMpA
Is it the signal to start orange movement in Russia.?
Liberal opponents to Putin and allies of Nemtsov say publicly that this murder is not in the interest of Putin;But the campain against Putin already started on German and french TV.
A young russian on called Alexis Prokopiev already speak on french tv saying that it is the fault of Putin and that everything is corrupted in Russia.Do all these lies about his own country bring something positive ? I do not think so.