Russia makes two arrests over Boris Nemtsov murder
Source: BBC News
Two men held over killing of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, head of Russia's security agency says.
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ETA:
Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev were detained on Saturday, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said, speaking on national television.
President Vladimir Putin has been informed of their detention, he added.
The murder last week of the veteran liberal politician, on a bridge within sight of the Kremlin, shocked Russia.
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However, a source said to be familiar with the investigation told Russia's Interfax news agency that the two detainees were suspected of carrying out the killing.
The car allegedly used by the suspects was found and helped to indentify them, the source said.
Russia's leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny accused the Kremlin of ordering the assassination in order to cow the opposition amid Russia's mounting economic problems.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31778279
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stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Are their names Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)moondust
(20,019 posts)Finally.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)groundloop
(11,530 posts)Oh, wait... that's not gonna' happen is it? That psychopath is going to get away with yet another crime while those below him take the fall - think Scooter Libby.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)..to where the perps have no idea who is responsible.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)As of last report I saw.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)pawns, probably. More than likely didn't have a damn thing to do with the murder/execution of Putin critic.
Igel
(35,383 posts)A lot of the foreign insurgents in the Donbas are Kadyrovtsy--Chechens. Not a couple S. Ossetians have also been detained or proudly proclaimed who they were on social media sites. And S. Ossetia is one of the few "state allies" that the LNR and DNR has.
Wyborcza gazeta explained, once, long ago, the Chechen connection. In the '90s, during the first down-putting of the Chechen uprising, a number of Ukrainians participated in what can only be described as brutal acts in and around Groznyi. Things were spun after the fact to shift the burden from the Russians (with whom the Chechens eventually had to make peace) to the Ukrainians--this allowed peace to be agreed to with a far greater loss of face. However, having spread not just a rationale but a necessity for a kind of inter-tribal blood feud, those bound by tribal honor are now stuck with the blood feud or honestly believed the face-saving rationale.
It also gives Kadyrov and the S. Ossetians a place to put their honor-starved young men who are convinced that their true honor lies in killing somebody. Better the "ukropy" as far as their regions' political leaders are concerned than them; better the "ukropy" than Russians, as far as their Russian masters are concerned. So for them its a win-win-win. For truth, it's a loss-loss-loss, but some kinds of honor rely more on perception than truth.
daleo
(21,317 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:36 PM - Edit history (1)
(paraphrasing Casablanca)
christx30
(6,241 posts)They will shoot themselves twice in the back of the head with their hands bound. And anyone that does not believe that report is anti-Russian.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)ripcord
(5,553 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)That doesn't surprise me.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)he gets to blame the Chechens for it.
Yeah, this seems legit.
elias49
(4,259 posts)I'll wait and see how it flushes myself. Let the chips fall where they may.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)or poison in the their tea, people will still believe he had nothing to do with them.