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Former Russian deputy PM shot and killed in Moscow.



easynow

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31669061

A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.

An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.

He died hours after appealing for support for a march on Sunday in Moscow against the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the murder, the Kremlin says.

In a recent interview, Mr Nemtsov had said he feared Mr Putin would have him killed because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.
 

Bevendean Hillbilly

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31669061

A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.

An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.

He died hours after appealing for support for a march on Sunday in Moscow against the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the murder, the Kremlin says.

In a recent interview, Mr Nemtsov had said he feared Mr Putin would have him killed because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.

Putin really is a nasty piece of work. It's weird how everyone in the world knows he's a proper bad un except the Russians most of whom love him.

the russkies are very nostalgic for the Cold War era when they ruled the USSR and they love his ultra nationalist stance. He gives me the creeps big style. Malevolent evil eyed monster is all I see when he takes the stage. David Irving, for all his faults, is very insightful when it comes to Nazism and his comparisons between hitlers methods and putins strategy of creeping leibensraum is a useful tool for students of history. He's accepted the holocaust happened now incidentally.
 

easynow

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Putin really is a nasty piece of work. It's weird how everyone in the world knows he's a proper bad un except the Russians most of whom love him.

the russkies are very nostalgic for the Cold War era when they ruled the USSR and they love his ultra nationalist stance. He gives me the creeps big style. Malevolent evil eyed monster is all I see when he takes the stage. David Irving, for all his faults, is very insightful when it comes to Nazism and his comparisons between hitlers methods and putins strategy of creeping leibensraum is a useful tool for students of history. He's accepted the holocaust happened now incidentally.

Killed two days before the planned anti-government rally in Moscow. Funny that.
 

Pavilionaire

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Cowardly and undemocratic, shocking.
 


vegster

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I'm sure Mr Putin had absolutely nothing to do with this,and if he did ? well these things just happen don't they ? I'm sure Mr Putin's people shot him for the right reasons.
 


jakarta

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When I worked in Oil & Gas I knew someone who had done the same in Russia.

He said the West should view the country as a Energy Company run by the Mafia that had nuclear weapons and act accordingly.
 

Guinness Boy

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When I worked in Oil & Gas I knew someone who had done the same in Russia.

He said the West should view the country as a Energy Company run by the Mafia that had nuclear weapons and act accordingly.

Scary but no doubt accurate. In some ways more worrying than during the cold war.
 


severnside gull

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Putin is up there with Hitler in the way he has taken and exercised control using imposed economic hardship as the spur to gain popular support. And up there with Stalin in his tactics for ensuring there is no opposition. Very dangerous and near impossible to counter from inside or outside the country
 

Tony Towner's Fridge

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Sh1te country, ruined by 80 years of militaristic industrially inefficient socialism. Now being squeezed economically by Saudi Arabia and the only way their despotic leader can react is to become ultra nationalistic and aggressive to it's neighbours , still struggling to get over decades of imperialistic Soviet abuse.
The World needs a calm Russia but with Putin in power & Saudi Arabia dictating World oil prices, it is looking increasingly grim.
Couple that with IS state and it looks even more depressing.

Nothing for it but to drink ale!


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