Fear envelopes Russia after killing of Putin critic

[DonViejo]

Andrew E. Kramer The New York Times
February 28, 2015

MOSCOW -- About two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile political assassination in Russia in a decade, Boris Y. Nemtsov met with an old friend to discuss his latest research into what he said was dissembling and misdeeds in the Kremlin.

He was pugilistic and excited, saying he wanted to publish the research in a pamphlet to be called “Putin and the War,” about President Vladimir Putin and Russian involvement in the Ukraine conflict, recalled Yevgenia Albats, the editor of the New Times magazine. Both knew the stakes.

Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, knew his work was dangerous but tried to convince her that, as a former high official in the Kremlin, he enjoyed immunity, Albats said.

“He was afraid of being killed,” Albats said. “And he was trying to convince himself, and me, they wouldn’t touch him because he was a member of the Russian government, a vice premier, and they wouldn’t want to create a precedent. Because, as he said, one time the power will change hands in Russia again, and those who served Putin wouldn’t want to create this precedent.”

As supporters of Nemtsov laid flowers on the sidewalk where he was shot and killed late Friday, a shiver of fear moved through the political opposition in Moscow.

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[malaise]

1. Sadly fear did not envelope America after the killing of 20 school children

and their educators. Indeed the opposite happened and RW folks rallied around their tools of mass destruction.

[uhnope]

2. K&R. Which makes the 50,000 marching in Moscow today all the more brave

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017248736

[AgingAmerican]

3. And he was soooo popular before this....

...there was even a large contingent here that gushed over him. And don't forget FOX news, they collectively orgasm'd over the Pootie pics on horseback.