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    Two Russian Opposition Parties Unite After Nemtsov Killing

    MOSCOW—
    Two Russian opposition parties agreed on Friday to run on a joint platform in 2016 parliamentary elections, aiming to make a first step in uniting fractious Kremlin adversaries after the killing of party leader Boris Nemtsov.

    Critics of President Vladimir Putin say he bears ultimate political responsibility for the gunning down of Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, on Feb. 27. The Kremlin denies stifling dissent and Putin has urged law enforcement bodies to investigate the case in full.

    RPR-Parnas, co-founded by Nemtsov, and Party of Progress, led by anti-graft blogger Alexei Navalny, said they would also run together in local elections due in some regions this year.

    “At this difficult time, we call on broad public and civic forces ... to consolidate on a common platform of rejection of lies, corruption and aggression, suppression of economic and civil liberties and for building a democratic state in our country,” they said.

    The leader of a small rightist opposition party said he would also join, and the parties hope for further support.

    Previous attempts to unite the opposition have failed, partly because groups whose ideology spans from left to right agree on little more than the need to oust Putin and fight corruption.

    Opposition activists led street protests in 2011 and 2012 but the rallies lost momentum as Putin started a third presidential term and tightened his grip on power.

    Navalny and other critics of the Kremlin have faced court cases and convictions on charges they denounce as political, while other activists have been driven into exile.

    “There are about 25 percent of people sharing such views in Russia but their influence would be much bigger if it were a fair game,” said Lev Gudkov, the head of the Levada sociological research center.

    “The Kremlin fully controls TV. Regular people simply don't know what the opposition is doing. Their capabilities and those of the Kremlin's propaganda are incomparable.”

    Ilya Yashin, who is seeking to complete a report started by Nemtsov to prove Russia's military involvement in east Ukraine, said of the late politician: “He often joked that infighting among democrats is like competing for prison time. It turned out even more dramatic,” Yashin wrote on Facebook.

    “It's a competition for who gets the bullet first. It's clear that if we don't start consolidating, they will kill us all, jail us one by one or, in the best case scenario, squeeze us out of the country," he said.

    Two Russian Opposition Parties Unite After Nemtsov Killing

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    Good- but it is pretty certain Nemtsov's assassination had absolutely nowt to do with Putin, on the contrary an embarassment for him.

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    How do we know that it was not the Mossad who gunned him down? He converted. He was Jew by his mother. Putin is ridding Russia of the controlling Jewish oligarchs who... well... who do what they do (see USA and Palestine for examples). Putin inherited Russia from Yeltsin. who kissed ass with the Jewish oligarchs and let the country practically go into ruin. Putin is kicking them out, and as far as the mafia is concerned, he is playing them against each other and letting them wipe each other out. Rather crafty, if you ask me. Do the research.

    Putin is bringing back Russian Orthodox Christianity. He is not a Jew, regardless of what some say about his mother's last name, which is by its spelling a Russian name, and not a Jewish name.

    Nemtsov was more responsible for his demise than Putin ever was, and moreover Putin probably would not have stopped it had he even had the measures to do so.

    This man was no saint by any standard.

    This is an all out war on Russia, to castrate Putin the same way the world tried to do it to Hitler (not saying Hitler was nice... the jury is still out), and the way the media created a blackout on Hitler was criminal.

    Thankfully, today we have the Internet, and BS like this has to pass the litmus test of intelligent people who do not accept the mainstream media's version of anything.

    I hope Putin can stand the test of time and out these scum for what they are, or at least long enough for others to catch on to what is going on around the world and begin taking up the slack.

    Just one of my many views on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Good- but it is pretty certain Nemtsov's assassination had absolutely nowt to do with Putin..
    It was the 78 year-old ex CIA guy.

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    Russian Court Finds Chechens Guilty in Murder of Opposition Leader Nemtsov


    From left: Temirlan Eskerkhanov, Shadid Gubashev, Khamzat Bakhayev, Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev — defendants suspected of involvement in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — stand in a glass enclosure during their trial in a Moscow military district court in Moscow, Russia, June 27, 2017.

    A Moscow court on Thursday found five Chechen men guilty in the 2015 murder of Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down just meters from the Kremlin and Moscow's Red Square.

    After an eight-month trial, the jury ruled by majority against brothers Shagid and Anzor Gubashev, Ramzan Bakhayev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Zaur Dadayev, who was found guilty of shooting Nemtsov six times in the back. Dadayev initially confessed to the crime but later recanted, saying he was tortured into the confession.

    The men face from eight years to life in prison when the sentences are announced next week.

    While the verdicts were welcomed by supporters of Nemtsov, the investigation and trial were condemned for failing to uncover the masterminds of the killing or addressing the motive, which is widely believed to be political.

    Nemtsov's daughter: 'Case unsolved'

    Nemtsov's daughter Zhanna Nemtsova, a journalist with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, called the case unsolved.

    In an exclusive interview with VOA's Russian Service on Wednesday, Nemtsova noted that while there was motive for the perpetrators — $250,000 allegedly promised for the murder — there was no attempt to establish who wanted Nemtsov killed and why.

    "So the investigators and the court are doing their best to hinder establishing the motive," she said. "It is obvious for Russians and for Europeans and Americans and for people all over the world that it was a political murder, it is a murder of the former deputy prime minister of Russia — that has never happened in contemporary Russian history. And they are cowardly denying it. They are denying an obvious thing without offering any other convincing motive," Nemtsova said.

    Investigators had initially claimed the accused men were motivated by Nemtsov's support for the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which controversially depicted Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

    Chechnya is a conservative Muslim republic of Russia run by strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who rules virtually independent of federal authorities because of his close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    "I suspect that Vladimir Putin knows much more about the circumstances of this murder than me and he possesses a complete knowledge of this murder and I, as an injured party, don't," Nemtsova said. "Why hasn't Ramzan Kadyrov been summoned to court?"

    Kadyrov connection?

    Nemtsov's family demanded investigators question Kadyrov, but it didn't happen. Kadyrov, who denies any connection to Nemtsov's murder, had infamously praised Dadayev as a "true patriot" just after his arrest. And, a month after Nemtsov's death, Putin awarded Kadyrov for his service to the nation.

    Dadayev was a former member of Chechnya's elite Sever police force and his commander, Ruslan Geremeyev, was supposedly being sought for questioning. However, investigators claimed they could not find him. Another wanted man blew himself up in the Chechen capital before he could be questioned, according to Russian media reports.

    Last year, the Chechen leader released a video showing other Russian opposition leaders in a sniper's crosshairs.

    "Still they haven't found any of the persons who ordered the attack or any of the organizers," Vadim Prokhorov, Nemtsov family lawyer, told the Associated Press as he was leaving the courthouse. "This is a complete fiasco, of course. It is completely obvious that the government did not have any intention over these past two years to find the real organizers and instigators. Even though we said that it is needed to investigate at least in the closest circle of Mr. Kadyrov, and we will continue to ask for this."

    Russian police are still looking for Geremeyev's driver, Ruslan Mukhudinov, who investigators say was the mastermind. Many critics, including Nemtsova, are dumbfounded by this claim.

    "It is mind blowing that the ringleader would be a driver of Ruslan Geremeyev," she said. "And what's his motive? How did he come up with 15 million rubles [$250,000]? These are, you know, absolutely discrediting details of how this investigation is going."

    Process could take years

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday noted those who ordered the killing had not been found, but that such a process could take years. After the verdict Thursday, he said it was up to the Investigative Committee — not the Kremlin — to decide on any further legal action.

    However, few believe those behind the killing will ever face justice as a number of Kremlin and Kadyrov critics have been murdered, but only the hitmen were jailed.

    Nemtsov's murder took place in one of the most heavily policed and videotaped areas of Russia. But, suspiciously, no video has ever been found of the killing and the perpetrators were able to escape the area before their arrest.

    "Russians were polled by the Levada center in March 2015 and more than 50 percent of them, when asked whether the case would be solved, said 'No,'" Nemtsova noted. "So, we understand too well what kind of a state we live in. Political murders are not solved here."

    https://www.voanews.com/a/five-found...-/3921206.html

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