IS Uses Ancient Arabic Traditions to Get Its Message Out


IS Uses Ancient Arabic Traditions to Get Its Message Out

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Islamic State militants are using the concepts of ancient Arabic traditions to lure followers via social media, analysts say. Princeton University Near Eastern studies professor Bernard Haykel has studied the level of sophistication the militants bring to their videos, which frequently feature poetry and music rooted in the classical traditions of Arabia. Haykel showed a VOA reporter a YouTube video featuring a dashing young Islamic State recruit standing near a stack of captured weaponry somewhere in Syria. The man was reciting an original poem written in the flowery style of classical Arabic verse.    “It’s obviously memorized even though he is reciting it as if it were extemporaneous,” Haykel said. “But it is classical Arabic in its language, its meter and its imagery.”     Much of the imagery has to do with the rapid expansion of Islam in its early days, when the Prophet Mohammed and his immediate successors in Arabia conquered territory from Iran to Spain. Many of those lands, such as Syria and Egypt, which had been Christian until the conquest, remain Muslim to this day. According to the translation done by Haykel, the fighter goes on to say “we are trying to revive the spirit of that early community, which was powerful and warlike and had pride and was not humiliated and broken and defeated like it has become. “ IS extremists also use poetry to justify their cause and convince others of its righteousness, Haykel said. “They are also trying to get recruits to join them and ((they also want to)) appeal to the wider world of Muslims… who don’t identify them with the Islam they know and believe,” he said. “In short, the Islamic State militants are hoping to send a clear message: We represent the real Islam,” he said.    Recruitment videos produced by IS militants and their sympathizers often use dramatic visuals culled from video war games. Some show Muslim heroes in medieval garb raising triumphant swords over smoldering cities.  Sometimes fighters are depicted on horseback. Some IS propaganda is aimed at the governments in the Middle East and the West who oppose their conquest, Haykel said. “Beheadings and the burning people alive is intended to terrorize the enemy… by saying ‘if you fight us and we capture you, this is what will happen to you,”” he said. The Obama Administration has expanded its efforts to counter such propaganda with its own social media campaign, featuring Muslim clerics and others denouncing IS and its tactics.   But to be credible, Haykel said,  the information war must be waged by Muslims who are not perceived as being mouthpieces for the West.
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Who Joins the Islamic State and Why

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What do "Jihadi John" and three men arrested in the United States this week have in common? Other than their alleged interest or participation in the Islamic State group, psychologists say perhaps not much. "There is never, ever one single factor that explains why people go," said John Hogran, a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell who studies the psychology behind terror movements and the people who join them. "It's religion, it's politics ... it's the push factors and the pull factors, the thrill of adventure, the excitement and the comfort you get from camaraderie," he explained. "Those are very, very powerful motivating factors," Hogran said "there's no doubt in my mind that if you look at the individual who becomes involved with ISIS [Islamic State] or wants to become involved, whether it's three years ago or three months ago or three hours ago, it can be very difficult to disentangle why they want to become involved." A friend of “Jihadi John,” the man identified this week in a Washington Post article as Mohammed Emwazi, told the newspaper the 26-year-old was upset by what he perceived as personal slights — including being blocked by counterterrorism officials in London from traveling to Kuwait. “He at some stage reached the point where he was really just trying to find another way to get out,” the unnamed friend told the Washington Post. Although the U.S. and British governments have not confirmed Emwazi’s identity as the man featured in several highly publicized Islamic State videos of brutal beheadings, the U.K.-raised computer science graduate is believed to have ultimately traveled to Syria to join the militant group. Other would-be IS members have been intercepted before reaching the self-proclaimed caliphate based in Syria and Iraq. Three men were arrested in the United States this week in connection with an alleged plot to join the group — including one as he was boarding a flight to Turkey from New York. According to court documents, one of the men, Abdulrasul Hasanovich Juraboev, expressed concerns about his family's lack of religiosity, saying he wanted to "become a martyr under the Islamic Caliphate against the polytheists and infidels." Why they join There are an estimated 20,000 foreigners who have joined the Islamic State, with several thousand coming from Western countries. The thread that unites them is they all find a reason — personal, or much broader — to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State. “You've got real-deal fanatics who really do believe this is end of days, apocalyptic, millenarian stuff," said Horgan. "For those guys, this is fantasy come to life. This is the kind of stuff that jihadis in the 1970s and 1980s could only have dreamt of." Horgan said he has no doubt that there are "hardcore believers that are there and will be the first to go and the last to come back, if ever. But then, you've got the dregs. You've got the people who do fall under the spell of recruiters and who do believe they can achieve something out there that they can never achieve at home.” In short: the Islamic State — which redefines what “right” and “wrong” are within its borders and re-brands “success” — can make its members feel like they are accomplishing something. James Piazza, a political science professor at Pennsylvania State University who focuses on terrorism and political violence, said the attention that Islamic State garners through bloody, graphic killings is a key recruitment tool. “They're trying to show a wider audience of people that are disaffected with the status quo that they're willing to break norms and show how dedicated they are,” Piazza told VOA. Arie Kruglanski, a professor at University of Maryland, began researching the psychology of terror groups after the September 11 attacks. He said would-be IS members may have micro or macro grievances and be distanced or spurned from the society they are living in — but to different degrees and fueled by varying motivations. "There are two types of disenfranchisement," explained Kruglanski. "The first is ... feeling personal humiliation and failure; the other is the disenfranchisement of a social group. Al-Qaida and propaganda have been harping on that successfully — 'you may have a successful life, but your brothers are being massacred; your social identity is being humiliated.'" "There’s no profile though," he added. He said "personality is important to some extent, but argument, group pressure — [they] can affect everybody." That group-thinking generally starts well before Islamic State supporters buy a plane ticket. "When people radicalize, it's very often a group process,” said Sam Mullins, counterterrorism professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. "The number of people who entirely self-radicalize with no social interaction — even online — is very, very rare.” Why they stay The psychology behind what causes men and women to join groups like Islamic State differs from the group mindset that keeps them inside, and in some cases, prompts them to carry out vicious, publicized attacks like those that made ‘Jihadi John’ the masked face of IS brutality. What Kruglanski calls the “great cleverness” of the Islamic State group is that it “removes the veneer of civilization by providing an ideological warrant for criminality.” “It turns sinners into saints, allowing that under the guise of religious ideology," he added. In other words, it is the inversion of the civilization that the men and women of the Islamic State grew up with before they joined. Violence, crime and justice no longer mean the same thing. Once they are inside the Islamic State's territory — in parts of northern and eastern Syria, and northern Iraq — getting out is also, by anecdotal accounts, extremely difficult. "From what we can see right now, the Islamic State is terrified about people leaving its ranks," said Horgan, who is researching how former terror group members reintegrate into society. He said "a lot of disillusioned jihadis basically say, 'well, you know, we came out here two or three years ago, and it wasn't quite what we expected.'" In the years to come, Horgan believes more stories of the disgruntled, disillusioned IS supporters will emerge. And they will be a source of invaluable information on how the Islamic State group functions, and what can be done to counter its psychological tactics. How to redirect them For now, Hogran says paying closer attention to who recruiters select to travel, join, carry out beheadings, and play other roles in the self-declared caliphate may be more important than unraveling why foreign fighters decide to join. Earlier this week, France announced it blocked six citizens from leaving the country for Syria, and intended to confiscate the passports of dozens more in an effort to curb foreign fighters exodus. But experts warn that travel bans aren't a cure-all. "There's obviously no sort of foolproof solution," said Mullins, who studies the flow of foreign fighters from Europe, North America and Australia to militant groups like the Islamic State. "The best approach ideally speaking — is to be as flexible as possible — and use different tools for different people, depending on the level of risk they present," he said. He was quick to point to the flaw in that logic, though, saying "there's basically no such thing as a reliable, standardized risk assessment tool for people like this." Kruglanski suggests countries find a way to channel the energy of would-be Islamic State supporters — including the ones caught acting on travel plans. It involves reframing what the “fight” is, just as the Islamic State has reframed what is right and wrong. “Mobilize the motivation that young people have — that quest for significance, that aggression,” he said. “It would mean mobilizing for a cause — but the cause, rather than being the cause of jihadism, would be the cause of fighting jihadism.”

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EU Lawmaker Tells Of Shelling And 'Chaotic Retreat' After Eastern Ukraine Cease-Fire

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A Belgian lawmaker observed pro-Russian rebels' offensive on the town of Debaltseve and Kyiv's "chaotic" retreat during his visit to eastern Ukraine last week.

ГПУ на днях выдвинет подозрения Кернесу по трем обвинениям - РБК Украина

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Генеральная прокуратура Украины на днях выдвинет подозрения Харьковскому городскому голове Геннадию Кернесу по трем обвинениям: "хулиганство", "пытки" и "незаконное лишение свободы". Об этом заявил генеральный прокурор Украины Виктор Шокин в эфире 5 канала.
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A Year of Russian Opposition Over the War in Ukraine

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Catherine A. Fitzpatrick writes the latest in our series on the anniversary of the Maidan Revolution and the birth of a new nation, Ukraine. Read the others in the series here.

A year ago, Russian opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov, former first deputy prime minister under Yeltsin, and Alexey Navalny,  an anti-corruption activist and blogger, were preoccupied mainly with how to get the world’s attention to the massive corruption in the $51 billion Sochi Olympics — triple the cost of any other Olympics in the world. They had found evidence of insider deals, no-bid contracts, and embezzlement in the companies favored by President Vladimir Putin to construct the Olympic Village and sports facilities and provide infrastructure (See The Interpreter’s translation,Winter Olympics in the Sub-Tropics: Corruption and Abuse in Sochi).
They were also concerned with labor rights, migrant exploitation and damage to the environment; a local environmentalist named Yevgeny Vitishko was sentenced to 3 years of prison for writing graffiti and damaging a fence surrounding the lavish resort of officials who built on a nature preserve.
But by the end of the Olympics, the world was already once again admiring Putin’s virtuoso performance while remaining seemingly heedless of his ability to distract from harsh realities like the jailing and torture of Circassian activists calling attention to the historical genocide in their homeland, or a group of Cossacks attacking Pussy Riot members who protested Putin’s rule.
Then suddenly, there was a profound new challenge from Putin  – Russian-backed separatists took over the parliament and administrative buildings on February 28 in Simferopol and Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Fleet, and by March 18, Putin was celebrating the forcible annexation of Crimea.
Early in our coverage of the war in Ukraine and its affect on Russiawe published a report from a brave provincial politician who kept asking inconvenient questions when he found out that paratroopers were missing from their barracks in his home town of Pskov, and ends as recently a mother of seven faced treason charges after also reporting troops missing from barracks near her home in Vyazma. These soldiers, some of them draftees pressured into signing contractors, weren’t supposed to be somewhere else; in fact, they were first in Crimea and then in southeastern Ukraine.
The Russians willing to stand up and oppose President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine are far and few between but they have taken great risks in their acts of conscience and suffered the consequences in ostracism, vilification in the press, beatings and jail.
When the independent Crimea Tatar TV station ATR saw armed, uniformed men seize the airport in Simferopol, take over the parliament building and stroll up and down outside their own building, they asked independent Russian war correspondent Andrei Babichenko in Moscow his opinion about “the little green men,” as they came to be called.
Babichenko told them he could see Vintorez snipers’ rifles which only Russian spetsnaz carried, and the standard uniforms for motorized regiments or airborne troops. He also referred to a report published in the local newspaper Pskovskaya Gubernaya by opposition legislator Lev Shlosberg that the 76th Guards Air Assault Division of the Russian Airborne Troops in Pskov were reported missing from their barracks and been dispatched to Ukraine. Shlosberg further reported that “the officers and contact group have been sent on a trip somewhere.”
“We know where,” said Babichenko, indicating the Crimea.
Later, ATR reporters ran for their lives when the mysterious green men began shooting at them from a building they had forcibly taken over, and ultimately ATR was closed by Crimean authorities under Russian occupation. Lev Shlosberg continued to ask about the deployment of the 76th regiment, now reported in Crimea, and then later, when reports surfaced that some had been killed in the Donbass, he followed their funerals and attempted to get answers. Their relatives, fearful of losing pensions or death benefits, were silent.
In the State Duma, the national parliament, a vote was held on whether to annex the Crimea. It passed nearly unanimously, with many deputies in St. George ribbons rejoicing, but one man, Ilya Ponomarev,  a technology entrepreneur and head of the State Duma’s sub-committee on Innovation and Venture Capital voted against it. He was harassed and demonized in the state media and threatened with specious lawsuits, and finally left the country. He joined the increasingly large community of Russian intellectuals abroad who left in the last year, including prominent writers such as Masha Gessen, economists such as Sergei Guriev and Aleksashenko, entrepreneurs such as Pavel Durov and pardoned political prisoner and businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and art curator Marat Gelman abroad, as well as many other young students and professionals whose temporary asylum seems to be dragging on as conditions worsen in their homeland.
Shlosberg kept talking, and suffered a serious beating in August 2014 by unknown men who did not steal anything from him but put him in the hospital with broken bones and concussion. Undeterred, he kept asking why his country was sending soldiers to an undeclared war, as did journalists from TV Rain, Novaya Gazeta and others who came to Pskov to try to get answers and themselves were beaten by local thugs helping the military cover up the story.
Other brave journalists followed the grim convoys known as “Cargo 200” of dead bodies returning from the May 2014 battle at the Donetsk Airport, when at least 33 people lost their lives, including many Russians, some from the Chechen Republic. Relatives told the regional news site Caucasian Knot of multiple funerals, but the details could not be verified. People were too afraid of repercussions from powerful Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
TV Rain, an independent channel that was warned by the censor and threatened with closure and forced out of its lease early, finally forced to broadcast from a private apartment, kept up a list of cases of soldiers it could verify as missing or killed in action in Ukraine. Other regional media including RBC.ru, Gordonua.com, Novaya Gazeta, Slon.ru and others kept reporting on cases and eventually a list of more than 265 cases were compiled out of the hundreds reported to be involved in the war. Foreign reporters have difficulty getting near this story; a BBC TV crew was beaten after interviewing one mother who described her son’s deployment and killing in Ukraine.
Soldiers’ Mothers groups in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities sent petitions to the Defense Ministry and on one occasion even got a meeting with military officials, but never any answers. They, too, soon began to pay for their persistent inquiries, and the Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg was declared a “foreign agent” and subjected to more scrutiny and regulations after a conservative local position petitioned a court about them; Ludmila Bogatenkova, a Soldiers’ Mothers leader in Stavropol Territory was arrested on fraud charges believed to be in retaliation for her work; she was finally released pending trial in poor health.
Prof. Andrei Zubov was dismissed from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations for writing an anti-war article; after massive petitions and protests he was briefly reinstated but then ultimately his contract was not renewed. Ela Kolesnikova, a researcher at the institute, resigned in protest against her colleague’s dismissal and restriction of academic freedom.
The campaign of vilification intensified, with even billboards put up along Moscow roads caricaturing opposition leaders such as Navalny and Valeriya Novodvorskaya, who died in July 12, 2014 after writing many columns and making talk show appearances denouncing Putin’s policies and aggression against Georgia and Ukraine.  Her last blog post which we translated was Why are the Russian People So Silent?
Rock singer Andrei Makarevich of the band Mashina Vremeni was targeted for sensational NTV dramas and denunciations by talk show hosts for his criticism of the war and willingness to put on a concert in Donetsk. Genri Reznik, veteran human rights lawyer and head of the Moscow Bar Association, staged a lone picket in front of NTV studios to protest the persecution of Makarevich. He resigned from his position in February 2015.
In September 2014, 26,000 people turned out to protest the war after the bloody battle of Ilovaisk, in which 300 Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives, and reportedly as many Russian contract fighters.
The intellectuals of the non-Russian former Soviet countries often complain that the opposition to the Kremlin replicates some of the imperialism of their opponents. While figures like Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky opposed the military conflict in Ukraine, they did not believe it was a priority to return Crimea. And with Khodorkovsky in exile and Navalny constantly threatened with prison it did not seem likely they would have any immediate opportunity to confront this challenge in any event. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Maidan activists appreciate the support they did get from both these opposition leaders as well and ordinary people who came to place flowers in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow.
To judge from state TV and social media, under heavy surveillance and government control, broad public support for the annexation and the war in Donbass seemed to indicate the growing success of ultranationalist movements that form the more significant challenge to the Kremlin’s power, given that liberals have no seats in parliament and their parties and newspapers aren’t registered.
Yet the proponents of “Novorossiya,” an aspirational realm to be made up of parts of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine inhabited by high concentrations of Russians and Russian-speakers, never delivered more than a few thousands participants to activists. Putin also reined in some of their most troublesome leaders, organizing the dismissal of Eurasianist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, known for his close ties with Europe’s far right, from Moscow State University, and ensuring that Yegor Prosvirinin, founder of the popular site Sputnik&Pogrom was interrogated and warned of prosecution for “extremism.”
At the onset of war in Donbass, Kremlin propagandists made heroes out of Col. Igor Strelkov and Major Igor Bezler, commanders of forces in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”. Aleksandr Boroday, for a time head of the DNR, a public relations consultant for Russian Orthodox businessman and philanthropist Konstantin Malofeyev, flourished for a time until first the retreat from Slavyansk then the downing of the MH17 airliner by Russian-backed separatists
Then their stars began to fall, and soon Moscow removed every single one of the Muscovite or Russian-born leaders of the manufactured Donbass insurgency, and replaced them with those native to Ukraine. Some have disappeared and are feared dead; but Strelkov remains in view on ultranationalist YouTube channels and his books are in kiosks.
In November, when ultranationalists planned the annual “Russian March,” they were banished to the outskirts of Moscow to demonstrate and their leader was arrested for “extremism”; the official “National Unity Day” had a far higher turn-out as the government stoked patriotic sentiments around the Anschluss of Crimea.
Other than the war in Ukraine, few other issues could turn people out to the streets; in November doctors came in their gowns to Manezh Square to protest major lay-offs and health care budget cuts, and in December, more radical protesters blocked Tverskaya Street in protest against the economic crisis.
The cost of taking part in protests not authorized by the government is high; even two years after the May 2012 Bolotnaya Square demonstrations against Putin’s rigged re-election, for which some leaders were sentenced to 4 to 5 years, investigators were still rounding up suspects including this week. Even quiet candlelight vigils for the victims in the war in Ukraine led to detentions.
In September, Izvestiya reported the launching of an “Anti-Maidan” movement to be made up of nationalists and conservatives and Russian Orthodox church leaders who said they would work to derail or block any pro-Maidan demonstrations in Russia. The appearance of this government-sanctioned effort revealed the intense paranoia about any spread of the Kiev phenomenon to Russia. When movies are shown or theatrical performances have been staged in Moscow related to Maidan, ultranationalist hecklers are permitted to harass them and police raid them and detain some participants.
Curiously, this movement then morphed into a somewhat different configuration where the church leaders were shed, possibly because the Moscow Patriarchate – half of whose parishes are in Ukraine – realized they had to tone down the rhetoric. So the bikers, Cossacks and Afghan war vets came into the fore. These are the people who openly threaten to beat liberal demonstrators — and have made good on those threats, for example at a meeting in defense of Navalny in January 2015.
Russia’s economy is suffering, but its problems began before the war. An interesting fact that emerged from a meeting with regional governors in February is that deficit for provinces tripled to 642 billion rubles ($9.5 billion) in 2013 when the regions went into debt to fulfill Putin’s post-election populist promises of higher salaries and pensions . This is a telling moment, as it indicates the beginnings of the economic crisis long before the war in Ukraine, Western sanctions, and the fall in the price of oil. Now that the ruble has crashed and Russians have lost a third of both their paychecks and their savings, and the price of oil has also fallen to half what it was last year, Russia is reeling.
Yet so far, these hardships have not led to massive unrest on economic grounds. There haven’t been any big labor strikes or mass protests devoted only to economic issues — only the relatively small doctors’ rallies and a few scattered workers’ actions around Russia. The opposition’s march planned for March 1, to be held on the outskirts of Moscow in the hopes of getting a permit is emphasizing the government’s poor handling of the economic crisis and opposes the war in Ukraine, which is very much related.
Due to harsh government crackdowns, the monopolization of television, increased controls of the Internet, Russia’s struggling opposition is unlikely to mount anything resembling the protests in Kiev or even New York, despite cries of “Occupy!” and “Maidan!” at every demonstration that gets more than a dozen people. Some of these types of protests have been ethnic riots attacking migrant laborers from the Caucasus and Central Asia. This sort of phenomenon has led some analysts to conclude that if there is any massive protest in Russia or threat to Putin or regional leaders, it will be in the form of nationalist discontent, based on economic demands or even fascist in nature. A running joke in Russian says that the patriotic slogan “Krym Nash!” (“Crimea is ours!) promulgated by state TV and state propagandists on social media has turned into the anagram “Kryshe Nam” which translates as something like “We’re done for,” with the realization that Russia’s aggression abroad has brought it a crisis at home for which Moscow can only blame itself.
This overlooks the reality that the main fascistic tendencies are coming from Putin in the Kremlin, not the street, and have led to a war on neighboring country, threats to other neighbors and destruction of relations with the West. With Western foundations and businesses chased out of Russia, it seems as if there is little leverage the West has to protect Russia’s fragile democratic movement, even as opposition leaders and human rights advocates themselves are demonized as a “fifth column” or “foreign agents” supposedly managed from the State Department, awash in dollar bills.
One year later, Boris Nemtsov lay dead from an assassin’s bullet in front of the Kremlin’s walls, two days before he was to lead the protest March 1. He had been preparing a report about Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. Investigators have not yet found a suspect, but part of what made it possible to kill Nemtsov was state media vilifying him and other opposition as “fifth columnists.” He was under constant surveillance. Billboards, ads, YouTube videos and print media were filled with hatred of him — a week before his death, state-supported Anti-Maidan marchers carried a portrait condemning him as the “organizer of Maidan” in Russia. But as Kirill Martynov said in Novaya Gazeta, instead of Maidan — the hope of change — Donbass — the horror of war — has came to Moscow.
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Порошенко считает, что миротворческий контингент для Украины должен сформировать ЕС - НТВ.ru

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Порошенко считает, что миротворческий контингент для Украины должен сформировать ЕС
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Президент Украины Пётр Порошенко провел телефонный разговор с канцлером Германии Ангелой Меркель. В ходе беседы украинский лидер выразил мнение, что миротворческий контингент, который отправится на Украину, должен быть сформирован Евросоюзом. 2362. Поделиться ...
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Russian Opposition Politician Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow 

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Boris Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister, has been shot dead in Moscow -- two days before a planned protest against President Vladimit Putin's government.

Putin’s Trojan Horse in Europe

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Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Hungary and his new energy deal with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban caused yet another debate in Europe over Russia’s attempts to undermine the Western alliance. Donald Jensen, resident fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, reviews these controversial developments.

Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov reported killed in Moscow 

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MOSCOW — Boris Nemtsov, a longtime Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladi­mir Putin, was shot and killed in central Moscow, the Russian Interior Ministry said early Saturday.Nemtsov, a central figure in Russian political life since the breakup of the Soviet Union, was a longtime leader of the opposition to Putin. He was one of the leaders of an opposition rally planned for Sunday.Read full article >>






Boris Nemtsov, Russian Opposition Leader, Is Shot Dead

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Mr. Nemtsov was shot to death on the street in central Moscow on Friday night, the Russian Interior Ministry confirmed to the news agency Interfax.






Murder in Moscow: Opposition Leader Killed

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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow, according to a statement from Russian government officials. The Russian politician and former deputy prime minister was killed by four shots in a central part of the city, according to the Interfax news agency.

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Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow - Huffington Post

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Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against the government. The death of Nemtsov, ...

Top critic of Putin gunned down outside the Kremlin

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Boris Nemtsov, former deputy prime minister, gunned down near Kremlin before taking part in march against Russian war in Ukraine








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Борис Немцов застрелен в Москве - BBC Russian

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Борис Немцов застрелен в Москве
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"Подтверждаем, что в центре Москвы убит мужчина, у которого найдены документы на имя Бориса Ефимовича Немцова", - сообщили "Интерфаксу" в пресс-центре ведомства. Убийство произошло на Большом Москворецком мосту. Немцов, который шел со спутницей, был убит ...
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Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
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Another opposition figure, Ksenia Sobchak, said Nemtsov had been preparing a report on the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine. The Kremlin strongly denies allegations by Kiev and Western capitals that it has sent troops and advanced weaponry to back ... 
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Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow 

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Former deputy PM and critic of Vladimir Putin who was due to lead major rally on Sunday was killed near the Kremlin
Prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and a sharp critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was reportedly shot four times in the chest by a killer in a passing car.
The killing took place in the very centre of Moscow late on Friday evening on a bridge near St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin, two days before Nemtsov was due to lead a major opposition rally in Moscow.
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Nemtsov in 2014: Power today is like 19 century Russia - CNN

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Nemtsov in 2014: Power today is like 19 century Russia
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Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow - Reuters

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Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
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Sunday's opposition march is intended as a protest against the war in east Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels have seized a swathe of territory. Kiev, the West and some Russians accuse Moscow of sending troops to support the rebels, an accusation Russia...

Russia robbed of a brave, authentic and distinctive voice

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The rise and sad demise of Boris Nemtsov, a former Yeltsin loyalist who became a remorseless critic of Putin
Charismatic, good-looking and typically dressed in tight-fitting jeans and a casual leather jacket, Boris Nemtsov was a genuinely popular Russian politician. He was also a remorseless critic of Vladimir Putin.
He spoke out strongly and vehemently against government corruption. Nemtsov opposed Putin’s annexation of Crimea and his covert war in eastern Ukraine – a needless adventure and “Putin’s war” in Nemtsov’s view.
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Boris Nemtsov shot dead: President Obama condemns brutal killing of Putin opponent

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President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.

Немцов: «Зимние олимпийские игры в субтропиках: коррупция и злоупотребления» 

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Одно из последних выступлений Б.Немцова в Вашингтоне Originally published at - http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/media/video/nemtsov-interview-archive/266262...
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Убит Борис Немцов 

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Убит Борис Немцов 
Оппозиционный лидер Борис Немцов убит этой ночью в центре Москвы.
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Михаил Касьянов: "Это расправа" 

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Репортаж с места убийства Бориса Немцова. Заявление Елены Алексеевой - официального представителя МВД...
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Борис Немцов последняя пресс-конференция - 28 февраля, 2015 

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Борис Немцов: о Марше, нефти, Путине и Милошевиче



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Diamond Thief Gets 15 Years in Paris Heist

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A French court concluded that Daoudi Yahiaoui, a convicted drug trafficker, was the brain behind a $100 million diamond heist at a Harry Winston jewelry store in 2008.

Boris Nemtsov: 'We Must Free Russia From Putin'

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Slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was looking ahead to a planned March 1 opposition rally, though in an interview with RFE/RL’s Russian Service earlier this month, he portrayed the demonstration as just a first step in a long struggle.    "If you think that [authorities] would run away on March 1 in fright, they will run away if we get a million [people]," he said in the February 3 interview. "But in order to get a million, we need to first have a...

Boris Nemtsov, A Russian Political 'Golden Boy' Who Battled Putin, Dead At 55 

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Once dubbed the “golden boy” of Russian politics in the media, Boris Nemtsov was later named first deputy prime minister by Yeltsin, a move that many interpreted as the Russian leader’s bid to groom his heir to the Kremlin. Instead, he eventually led an array of liberal-minded opposition movements and parties alleging wrongdoing under Vladimir Putin.

США определились с требованиями к Ирану на переговорах по атому - Коммерсантъ

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США определились с требованиями к Ирану на переговорах по иранской ядерной программе в Швейцарии на следующей неделе, сообщил журналистам представитель американской администрации. Госсекретарь США Керри вылетает в Швейцарию на выходных, как ожидается, ...
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Boris Nemtsov, Heart of Russias Opposition, Gunned Down in Moscow - Daily Beast

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Boris Nemtsov, Heart of Russias Opposition, Gunned Down in Moscow
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The leader and driving force for the Russian opposition, Boris Nemtsov, 55, was shot dead on Friday night on Moskvoretskiy bridge, a few meters away from the wartime Kremlin. A gunman fired at Nemtsov's back at least six times from an open window of a ...
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Sir John Sawers, ex-MI6 chief, warns of Russia 'danger' - BBC News

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Sir John Sawers, ex-MI6 chief, warns of Russia 'danger'
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Russia has become a danger to Britain and the country must be prepared to take steps to defend itself and its allies, the former head of MI6 says. Sir John Sawers, who recently retired after five years as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, told ...

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Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead Outside Kremlin (Video) 

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Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis, has been shot dead outside the Kremlin in a murder that underscored the risks taken by the Russian opposition.

Памяти Бориса Немцова 

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Какой хотел видеть Россию политик и человек Борис Немцов? - говорят политики Сергей Филатов, Юлий Рыбаков,...
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Борис Немцов. Последнее интервью Радио Свобода

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Последнее интервью Бориса Немцова Михаилу Соколову. Ссылка на источник - http://www.svoboda.org/media/video/26874044.html.
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Экс-замглавы фракции Партии регионов покончил жизнь самоубийством в Киеве - Газета.Ru

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Экс-замглавы фракции Партии регионов покончил жизнь самоубийством в Киеве
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В Киеве из окна своей квартиры выпрыгнул народный депутат Украины седьмого созыва, бывший первый заместитель главы фракции Партии регионов Михаил Чечетов. В результате падения он скончался. Об этом сообщает «Интерфакс» со ссылкой на пресс-службу столичного ГУ ...
Журналисты узнали о самоубийстве бывшего замглавы фракции Партии регионовLenta.ru
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Бывший замглавы Партии регионов Михаил Чечетов покончил с собойРБК
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Russia Update: February 28, 2015 

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Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies.
The previous issue is here.
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Boris Nemtsov, opposition leader, has been shot dead two days before he was to lead a protest march against Russia’s war on Ukraine and the government’s handling of economic crisis.
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Prominent Putin critic Boris Nemtsov shot dead near Kremlin

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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, is gunned down while walking in sight of the Kremlin late Friday, prompting an international chorus of condemnation






Boris Nemtsov murder: the man who might have been king

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It is a quirk of fate that the leading Russian opposition leader gunned down outside the Kremlin might once have become President himself, instead of Vladimir Putin








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Памяти Бориса Немцова - 28 февраля, 2015

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Какой хотел видеть Россию политик и человек Борис Немцов? - говорят политики Сергей Филатов, Юлий Рыбаков, правозащитники Лев Пономарев, Алла Гербер, Валентин Гефтер, общественные деятели Ирина Хакамада, Георгий Сатаров, журналисты Леонид Велехов, Михаил Соколов, друзья, соратники, политические оппоненты.



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Boris Nemtsov: 'I'm afraid Putin will kill me,' politician said weeks before being shot dead

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The Russian opposition politician shot dead in Moscow had spoken of his fear that Vladimir Putin would have him killed weeks before his murder.

Меркель призвала Путина обеспечить скорейшее расследование убийства Немцова - Коммерсантъ

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Канцлер ФРГ Ангела Меркель потрясена коварным убийством российского оппозиционного политика Бориса Немцова, передает 28 февраля «РИА Новости» со ссылкой на заявление официального представителя правительства ФРГ Штеффена Зайберта. «Она ценит мужество ...
Меркель призвала Путина скорее расследовать убийство НемцоваРИА Новости
Меркель призвала Путина разобраться в убийстве НемцоваРБК
Меркель призвала Путина наказать виновных в убийстве НемцоваГазета.Ru
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Inside And Outside Russia, Condemnation Of Nemtsov Slaying

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The killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has drawn condemnation from Russian politicians, world leaders, and international rights organizations who were unanimous in their calls for the perpetrators of the crime to swiftly caught and brought to justice. 

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British people are sexually uptight, dirty and drink too much – according to Spanish book

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British people like to drink too much and would rather complete a crossword than have sex, according to a book published in Spain.

Emergency Services At Scene Of Nemtsov Killing

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Firemen used hoses to clean the street, as crowds gathered at the scene of the killing of prominent Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov - who was shot dead in central Moscow late on the evening of February 27. Nemtsov, 55, was a sharp critic of Vladimir Putin, assailing the government's inefficiency, rampant corruption and the Kremlin's policy on Ukraine. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)

Russians Take to Social Media to Mourn Boris Nemtsov

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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead late Friday outside the Kremlin. Since then, his death has become one of the most debated topics among Russian social media users.

"КиберБеркут": США будут поставлять оружие Киеву через частные компании - Правда.Ру

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"КиберБеркут": США будут поставлять оружие Киеву через частные компании
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Украинские хакеры из группы "КиберБеркут"выложили в сеть перехваченные документы о поставках вооружений официальному Киеву со стороны США. Оружие пойдет через частные компании. Одна из таких фирм - компания "Green Group", сотрудники которой совсем недавно были с ...
«Киберберкут» сообщил о переговорах США по поставке оружия на УкраинуПолит.ру
"КиберБеркут": США не отказываются от идеи поставлять летальное оружие Киеву, но хотели бы заручиться поддержкой европейских союзниковНакануне.RU
Хакеры из «Киберберкута» рассекретили планы США о поставках вооружения на УкраинуРИА VladTime.ru
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Nemtsov Feared Putin Would Kill Him and Now the Kremlin Leader Has 

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            Staunton, February 28 – Almost three weeks ago, Boris Nemtsov said that he feared that Vladimir Putin would kill him for his opposition activities, and last night, the Kremlin leader did, either by direct order which some are convinced is the most likely or by creating the barbarous climate in Russia which has made such crimes more possible as others do.

 

            On February 10, Nemtsov told “Sobesednik” that he had long feared that action but until that point had shared his fears only with his mother. Unfortunately, in recent weeks, the situation has deteriorated to the point, he suggested, that he “finally decided to talk about all this in public” (sobesednik.ru/politika/20150210-boris-nemcov-boyus-togo-chto-putin-menya-ubet).

 

            His mother, Nemtsov said at the time, “is categorically against what is taking place in Ukraine and considers that this is a catastrophe and a complete nightmare. But Putin agitates her more than Ukraine. Everytime when I call her, she says: ‘When are you going to stop cursing Putin? He will kill you!’”

 

            She was at that point “really afraid,” Nemtsov said, that Putin would kill him in the near future because of his statements and actions. “And this, I repeat, was no joke: she is an intelligent person. She very much fears this.”

 

            Nemtsov said then that he didn’t fear this possibility as much as his mother “but all the same … If I feared it very much then I would hardly be able to head an opposition party or be involved in what I am involved with.”  And in response to his interviewer’s hope that “good sense will triumph and Putin will not kill you,” Nemtsov said he hoped so too.

 

            Now, however, Nemtsov is dead, gunned down within sight of the Kremlin, and many are sure that Putin bears direct or indirect responsibility for this latest crime.  Igor Eidman notes that “now many are writing that Putin didn’t give the order … but is guilty because he released the genie of hatred out of the bottle and created an atmosphere of chauvinist hysteria” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=54F178E019A57).

 

But the Moscow commentator says that he is “certain that it was precisely Putin who in one form or another personally gave the order to kill Nemtsov.”  The Kremlin leader like the bandit he is could not bear Nemtsov’s characterization of him as “the great dictator” and his constant criticism of what Putin has done at home and abroad.

 

From Putin’s perspective, Eidman says, Nemtsov had thereby undermined Putin’s authority, something the Kremlin leader cannot tolerate. But there is a more immediate and practical reason why Putin killed him: Nemtsov was preparing a report on “Putin and the War” about the crimes of the Kremlin in Ukraine. Putin couldn’t allow that to appear.

 

            Few people especially inside  Russia are prepared to be that blunt. After all, in the current environment, they could become the next victims.  Instead, and Nemtsov’s fellow opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky is typical of this, they prefer to speak about “political responsibility” rather than accusing Putin of this crime (echo.msk.ru/blog/yavlinsky_g/1502064-echo/).

 

            Unfortunately, that reluctance, the natural response to the increasingly vicious nature of the Putin regime, plays right into the hands of how the Kremlin is dealing with this situation. On the one hand, it is putting out a variety of “versions” of the murder, confident that the media in its quest for “balance” and “responsibility,” will report them (izvestia.ru/news/583532).

 

            That will allow Putin to avoid responsibility by muddying the waters, the same thing he has done with his crimes in the past, and almost inevitably mean that Western leaders instead of viewing this political murder as yet another reason to oppose Putin’s actions will avoid doing so, possibly in the continued name of not causing the Kremlin leader to “lose face.”

 

            And on the other hand, the Putin regime is doing what it can to prevent the murder of Nemtsov from sparking the kind of political protest Russian regimes historically have found difficult to cope with. The opposition wants to transform a protest march scheduled for tomorrow into a memorial march: Putin’s agents in the Moscow city government have already said no (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=54F172F3BE541).
 

            The author of these lines had the privilege of meeting Boris Nemtsov. He was a truly great man, the kind of leader Russia needs to escape its past and become a better place. Now that he has been gunned down by those committed to taking Russia back to that past, we must honor his memory in the first instance by not allowing his murderers to evade responsibility.

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Shocked Muscovites Gather at Scene of Boris Nemtsov's Murder 

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The Kremlin's crimson walls glisten in the freezing rain. Red Square is still illuminated with holiday season lights. The multicolored domes of St. Basil's Cathedral soar skywards.
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Live Blog: The Nemtsov Slaying

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The assassination late Friday of one of Russia's most potent government critics, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, was quickly denounced by Russians across the political spectrum and by foreign leaders. In this live blog, RFE/RL's Moscow correspondent Tom Balmforth and RFE/RL editors are following reports and analysis as the investigation begins into another in a long list of politically charged Russian killings, this one just days before a major antigovernment rally that...

David Cameron says 'callous murder' of Boris Nemtsov must be rapidly investigated 

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Prime Minister says "callous murder" of Russian opposition politician "must be fully, rapidly and transparently investigated, and those responsible brought to justice"








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Родители Анны Дурицкой были против ее отношений с Немцовым - Arbat City

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Родители Анны Дурицкой были против ее отношений с Немцовым
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Корреспонденты LifeNews отмечают, что им удалось побеседовать с близкими модели из Киева Анны Дурицкой, которая сопровождала вчера вечером Бориса Немцова, убитого на Большом Москворецком мосту. В частности, сообщается, что родители знали, что их 23-летняя дочь ...
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Пресс-секретарь Путина заявил, что «Немцов был в тесных контактах с людьми в Киеве» | Политика и власть | Последние Новости Омска и Омской области

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Власти считают, что убийство оппозиционного политика Бориса Немцова может выглядеть как провокация на «фоне насыщенной обстановки, которую мы имеем в связи с событиями на Украине».
«Значит, очевидно, что Борис Немцов был оппозиционером, очевидно, что он был в достаточно тесных контактах с разными людьми в Киеве, он туда часто ездил, это не секрет, это все знают», — сказал Дмитрий Песков в эфире «Коммерсант-ФМ».
Президент Владимир Путин же отметил, что «это жестокое убийство имеет все признаки заказного и носит исключительно провокационный характер».
Силовики также рассматривают версии, связанные с политической деятельностью Немцова и его работой на посту депутата ярославской областной думы. Не отметается также и версия, связанная с личной неприязнью.
В свою очередь адвокат Немцова Вадим Прохоров сообщил «Интерфаксу», что политик получал угрозы в социальных сетях, но это было несколько месяцев назад.
Немцов был убит накануне планировавшейся на 1 марта акции оппозиции против участия России в событиях на Украине. Как сообщал БК55, убийстсво произошло сегодня ночью в центре Москвы. МВД России сообщает, что есть свидетели убийства, подробности не раскрываются. Возбуждено уголовное дело об убийстве и незаконном обороте оружия.
Никита Летов

Что известно о фотомодели, которая была рядом с Немцовым в момент убийства? | Политика и власть | Последние Новости Омска и Омской области

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Свидетельницей убийства Бориса Немцова стала украинская модель Анна Дурицкая (ОБНОВЛЕНО).
Как стало известно, Немцов и украинская фотомодель Анна Дурицкая познакомились еще в 2011 году. Студентка Киевского национального экономического университета мгновенно влюбилась во взрослого опытного мужчину.
Родители не одобряли отношения дочери с человеком вдвое старше ее, однако Аня продолжала общаться с Борисом. Оппозиционер даже дал ласковое прозвище своей юной пассии — Баунти. Второе имя тут же прижилось, и девушку начали называть так все знакомые, рассказал портал "Лайфньюс".
Влюбленные привыкли жить на два города и две страны: какое-то время в киевской квартире Анны, затем — в Москве, где они останавливались в квартире у Бориса в самом центре.
В конце декабря 2013 года Анна узнала, что забеременела. Посоветовавшись с любовником, Дурицкая приняла решение и уже в начале января 2014 года уехала в Швейцарию, где в элитной частной клинике в Цюрихе ей провели операцию по избавлению от нежелательной беременности. Все расходы тогда взял на себя Борис Немцов — 2200 франков, включая все дополнительные услуги.
Подруга Анны Юлия рассказала о ее романе с известным оппозиционером.
— Познакомились они три года назад, и у них сразу вспыхнули чувства друг к другу. Жить вместе они стали практически сразу. Только в силу разных обстоятельств проживали на два города — в Москве и в Киеве, — поделилась девушка.
Юлия отметила, что 55-летний Борис Немцов баловал свою 23-летнюю подругу дорогими презентами, дарил духи и драгоценности.
Анна Александровна Дурицкая родилась 27 ноября 1991 года в городе Белая Церковь Киевской области. Окончила школу №3 в Белой Церкви, после чего в 2008 году поступила на учёбу в Киевский национальный экономический университет им. Вадима Гетьмана по специальности «Учёт и аудит». Одновременно с этим начала работу моделью и фотомоделью, на сайтах кастингов указаны ее параметры: рост 177 см, объём груди 88 см, объём талии 63 см, объём бёдер 89 см.
С июня 2011 года по сентябрь 2012-го работала менеджером в туристическом агентстве Join Up (Киев), а с июня 2012 года — в модельном агентстве «Амоделс» (Киев). После этого периода на сайтах по поиску работы можно встретить её резюме, где она искала работу секретаря или менеджера.
Сегодня ночью, как рассказывал БК55, Анна Дурицкая дожидалась Немцова в ГУМе, где они поужинали. Около 23 ч. пара вышла на улицу и пешком направилась в сторону Васильевского спуска. Немцов и Дурицкая шли рядом по Большому Москворецкому мосту, когда подъехавший на белой иномарке киллер открыл стрельбу по политику. Преступник шесть раз выстрелил в Немцова, четыре пули попали в спину, под левое ребро.
Никита Летов
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Former MI6 chief warns over Russian threat

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John Sawers says defence spending needs to increase to counter Vladimir Putin’s actions and Europe needs to find a new way to coexist with Russia
Russia has become a greater threat to Britain and defence spending needed to increase to counter Vladimir Putin’s actions, the former MI6 chief has warned.
Sir John Sawers, who stepped down in 2014 after five years of running the Secret Intelligence Service, said the threat posed by Moscow was “not necessarily directly to the UK but to countries around its periphery”.
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