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Source: NBC
Russia's top investigative authority said it was looking at whether the shooting death of prominent opposition leader Boris Nemtsov early on Saturday was aimed at destabilizing the state.
A line of inquiry not mentioned in the statement on the website for Russia's Investigative Committee was the possibility that he was gunned down because he was one of President Vladimir Putin's staunchest critics.
The committee would investigate whether Nemtsov was slain as a "sacrificial victim for those who do not shun any method for achieving their political goals," the committee said in the statement. The committee was also looking at the possibility that Nemtsov, who was shot as he walked across a bridge in Moscow earlier on Saturday, was linked to Islamic extremism, the Ukraine conflict or his personal life.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov also called the murder "a provocation" benefiting the opposition and said on Kommersant FM radio that ratings-wise, "Boris Nemtsov was just a little more than an average citizen."
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boris-nemtsovs-murder-may-have-been-provocation-russian-officials-n314716
Yes, folks, the Kremlin's investigating agency is going full-on Alex Jones False Flag, saying they will investigate whether the killing of Putin's political opponent was done by the Putin's opponents to make Putin look bad and provoke opposition to the state. Such is the simultaneously Orwellian and Kafkaesque world of Putin's Russia.
I suspect certain Putin Explainers will soon start bringing up this possibility soon. Look for articles from Robert Parry on it any moment now.
Notice the investigative committee mentioned nothing about investigating the possibility that Boris Nemtsov was killed because he was an opponent of Putin's. Naah.