5 convicted in killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov

[jpak]

Source: USA Today

A Russian jury on Thursday convicted five men — a gunman and four purported accomplices — in the 2015 murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Zaur Dadayev, 34, was found guilty of fatally shooting Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, who was walking with a girlfriend on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin on the evening of Feb. 27, 2015.

Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya’s leader, and the four other defendants, all Chechens, were allegedly promised $250,000 to kill Nemtsov, who had urged in a radio interview that protesters turn out for a weekend rally targeting Russian intervention in Ukraine.

Nemtsov, 56, had also warned that too much power in the hands of one man would “end in catastrophe," a not too subtle reference to Putin.


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[Turbineguy]

1. Look where working for Putin gets you Mr.

Trump!

[C Moon]

3. :D

[DetlefK]

2. So... Kadyrov remains a problem for Putin.

Kadyrov kills people, ruins Russia's reputation, and Putin can't do jack-shit about it because he needs Kadyrov to keep the islamic extremists of Chechnya loyal to Moscow.

[ancianita]

4. Pretty much. They're at a profitable stalemate.

[Igel]

5. On the other hand, let's not rule out

that Moscow just disposed of some problems for Kadyrov.

The assumption generally is that in high-profile and politically charged cases the Russian courts are tainted.

The assumption here is that the Russian court is straight dealing in this high-profile and politically charged case. A missing yet important witness. And the people actually on Naval'nyi's seem to think that the investigation wasn't quite right.

I'd assume that if these guys did it, they're the fall guys. I'm not going to say that I believe they actually did it. It's a nice solution for Russia--they had one group of bad guys take out another bad guy, and along the way the Kremlin looks not only innocent but downright good.

It's like the CNN story a day or two ago: Yeah, it's possible, but why should I believe it?

Putin and Kadyrov often work together to help out. There were more than a few Chechens show showed up in the Donbas fighting with Moscow's guys. One train was unofficially monitored moving men and equipment from Chechnya to the area. People posted videos taken in the Donbas of "Russians" speaking Chechen. Lots of them died. Kadyrov managed to help Putin while disposing of some of his most problematic men. One hand washes the other.