Russian President Vladimir Putin has marginalized and intimidated his political opponents, jailing some and driving others into exile, since mass anti-Putin protests swept Moscow in 2011 and 2012.
The first possibility, the Investigative Committee said, was that the killing was aimed at destabilizing the political situation in Russia and Nemtsov was a “sacrificial victim for those who do not shun any method for achieving their political goals.”
TV Center, a station controlled by the Moscow city government, showed a poor-resolution video taken of the bridge from a distance at the time of the killing, which it says shows the suspected killer jumping …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle