(JTA) — Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the murder of former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov risked plunging Russia into civil war.
An unidentified shooter on Saturday gunned down Nemtsov, who was a Christian but said he had Jewish ancestry.
Khodorkovsky, a Russian Jew who left to Switzerland in 2013 after being sentenced to 11 years in prison in graft trials that critics alleged were designed to eliminate his political ambitions and criticisms of human rights abuses by Russian President Vladimir Putin, made the warning in a statement posted on Feb. 28 on his website.
“They’ve murdered Boris a hundred meters from the …read more
Source: JTA
