A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow’s Red Square, said suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical and useful for the Kremlin because they deflected accusations that officials were involved.
Speculation about an Islamist link strengthened after investigators charged a man from the Muslim Chechnya region over the killing, and his former boss said the suspect had been angered by publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
That has been met with scepticism by some of Nemtsov’s associates. They believe that the Kremlin stood to gain from the killing …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
