rip Boris Nemtsov

[Drowsy Emperor]

Its simple: first, that's the entire opposition, trying to squeeze out some media attention for itself. Many of them have nothing to do with Nemtsov, some were even antagonistic toward him, or he to them. Now they have the opportunity for some of his fictitious martyrdom to rub off on them.

 

Second, population of Moscow: 11,000,000 people. In a city of 11 million people, a few thousand (videos decline to show the full extent of the crow) represent nothing. The article you posted says "several thousand", tens of thousands is your own hyperbole.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Drowsy Emperor

[BruceVC]

Its simple: first, that's the entire opposition, trying to squeeze out some media attention for itself. Many of them have nothing to do with Nemtsov, some were even antagonistic toward him, or he to them. Now they have the opportunity for some of his fictitious martyrdom to rub off on them.

 

Second, population of Moscow: 11,000,000 people. In a city of 11 million people, a few thousand (videos decline to show the full extent of the crow) represent nothing. The article you posted says "several thousand", tens of thousands is your own hyperbole.

 

Wow..... you really have convinced yourself that the assassination of Nemtsov meant nothing to the Russian people, sorry Drowsy I cant keep trying to change your mind. You believe what you want, its your prerogative

[Zoraptor]

As for this happening in the West, eh, well political people can be removed from their careers via other means rather than murder. 

 

Yep, though that includes 'suicide'. Both the David Kelly ('committed suicide' in such an obscure way that many doctors aren't sure it's even technically possible to have done so) and Gareth Williams (committed suicide by locking himself inside a duffle bag, according to his employers the SIS, who didn't notice (!) he had disappeared for a week or more) 'suicides' almost certainly would have been labelled as political murder if they'd been in Russia- and of course there are those seven 'suicides' in six weeks that have happened in Ukraine, which their interior ministry have labelled as a good thing.

 

Though that is also what nobody can quite explain about Nemtsov, why Putin would kill him when he has other means of control such as imprisonment, and why he'd bother assassinating someone whose only significance is that westerners liked him. Politically he was irrelevant and had been for 15 years, not really due to Putin either, western support is very much a poisoned chalice. Even the 2011 protests had very little support for 'liberals' despite what was said, unless said 'liberals' liked waving Russian Imperial Flags and Soviet Flags rather a lot.

 

Still, it's rather a good example of how Putin is exactly as competent/ incompetent as needed to fit the narrative. Some days ago it was how the murderers would never be found and they should have been captured within hours, proof of Putin's involvement, now he apparently can't even find a proper patsy to take the blame, which is also proof of his involvement.