Russian opposition leader’s Boris Nemtsov’s assassination last week came as no surprise to Russia’s or Ukraine’s polities, and should come as none to Western governments and leaders. Failing an extraordinarily unlikely, voluntary, and credible confession from the assassin(s), it will remain unsolved, simply another murder in a shooting gallery that opened for business in 1917.
Nemtsov posed a real threat to President Vladimir Putin’s credibility and legitimacy both inside Russia and around the world. As an elite insider to post-Soviet Russia’s dark and consistently violent political evolutions, Nemtsov’s ability to put the test to Putin’s claims respecting Russia’s involvement in Ukraine …read more
Source: National Post
