Last Friday night
Russian activist Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow near the
Kremlin with his Ukrainian girlfriend, who survived the incident.
Nemtsov was a Russian activist who often spoke out against his
country often referring to them as corrupt and was arrested many
times for speaking these particular views.
According to
Ukrainian
President, Petro Poroshenko, Nemtsov was about to reveal vital
information that would harm Russia's image leaving many left with
their own imagination as to why he was murdered. Poroshenko stated in
an interview "A few weeks ago I had a conversation with him on
how to build relations between Ukraine and Russia, as we would like
them to be. Boris said that he was going to make public the strong
evidence for participation of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine.
Someone was very afraid of that. Boris was not afraid, the
executioners were afraid. They killed him." If this information
is correct this would mean that Ukraine's suspicions about Russia's
involvement with the Russian separatists could very well be a
reality, although at the moment this is not the only theory.
Putin
has vowed to find those responsible for the murder even though many
Russians believe that he himself may have had a hand in it, although
Putin has a different theory. According to Putin's spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, Putin believes that it was a contract hit meant to start
political conflict, in which case it may have very well succeeded.
There are also others who believe that the murder may have something
to do with the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris or that it may have had
something to do with Nemtsov's own personal business. Two days after
Nemtsov's death he was meant to lead a march which has since become
something much larger than a opposition rally.
William Addison Bullard
March 6th 2015
9:45 P.M.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/01/europe/russia-opposition-leader-killed/index.html
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