Hooray! Nemtsov's killer has confessed!

[DetlefK]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/nemtsov-murder-suspects-charged-moscow-court-150308121337354.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11457880/Ramzan-Kadyrov-Nemtsov-suspect-was-a-deep-believer-angered-by-Charlie-Hebdo.html
"The two charged men were reportedly detained in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya. Officials have suggested they are suspected hitmen and that the masterminds behind the murder are still at large.

Competing rumours had already emerged that the arrested men from the Caucasus could be fall guys, or killers associated with pro-Moscow authorities in the region."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/08/us-russia-nemtsov-idUSKBN0M406S20150308
"Kadyrov described Dadayev as "a true patriot of Russia" who had received several medals for bravery but had subsequently resigned from his interior ministry regiment for reasons the Chechen leader said were unclear.

There have been cases in the past where employees of Russian law enforcement agencies have been prosecuted after moonlighting for organized crime groups.

...

There was no word from investigators on who the suspects were alleged to have been working for.

Several other high-profile killings in Russia, including the 2006 shooting of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, have been attributed to gunmen from Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus region, while those who ordered the crimes were never firmly identified."


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And what a perfect coincidence! He's a Chechen, an ethnicity that is reviled by russian nationalists!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia#Peoples_of_the_Caucasus

I hope this makes it clear for everybody: The case is settled. The "black" guy did it. And he already confessed and the russian police would never force somebody to sign a false confession in a high-profile political assassination where the international reputation of Russia is at stake.

To all those guys who insisted that Putin had something to do with the murder of one of his most vocal opponents:
He obviously did not.
It was this deranged outsider, this lone wolf.
You may switch the topic now.

Hey, look over there!

[ck4829]

1. Kadyrov's Chechnya AKA the Ministry of Plausible Deniability

[NuclearDem]

2. Man, Chechens are incompetent.

For all the beef they have with Russia, they sure seem to target an awful lot of Russia's internal critics.

Come on, guys, get it together.

[stevenleser]

3. Yep, Putin murders enemy A and blames enemy B eliminating both in one stroke.

I said it in another thread. But lets not forget their first attempt was to blame the CIA. Its only after that failed that they found their fall guys in Chechnya.

[Hutzpa]

4. Somebody has to take the fall don't you know. eom

[Takket]

5. That's why the GOP keeps telling us he is the greatest leader in the world!

[renegade000]

6. the details surrounding this guy just make it seem more fishy, not less...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/boris-nemtsov-speculation-about-islamist-link-useful-for-kremlin

An associate of the pro-Kremlin leader of Chechnya, who served in pro-Russian militias? Yeah, that's kind of a huge distinction from "those darn Chechen separatists did it!"

Quote from the pro-Kremlin official associated with the alleged killer:

“If the court finds Dadayev guilty then by killing a person he has committed a grave crime. But I want to note that he could not do anything that was against Russia, for which he has risked his own life for many years.”

Well, murdering an opposition figure and then taking the fall in a manner that deflects attention away from politically problematic motives would be consistent with a particular and insidious form of patriotism. How lenient they are with him will be an interesting matter to watch...

What's the Russian word for "plumber"?

[uhnope]

7. K&R. classic

[RobertEarl]

8. Wow. Fast

Faster than the JFK and RFK and MLK verdicts.

Them Ruskies is quick. Watch out!! They'll take over the world and invade the Middle East next!!

[elias49]

9. Who confessed? I can't find a name. Just suspects.

What did I miss?