Mosca: Assassinato Boris Nemtsov a due passi dal Kremlin

Mi ricordo di quel che ricordava ART (quasi 2 anni fa) in dialogo con einrix  (dialogo ... per modo di dire, dato che se uno dice senza che l'interlocutore lo stia a sentire  ... non è che la classica  "voce che strilla nel deserto").

ART ha scritto:In Europa, al contrario di quanto può facilmente avvenire da cicciobello Vladimir, se critichi il governo non rischi di finire ammazzato, in carcere o con una siringata di calmante nel culo iniettata di nascosto (è successo anche questo anni fa, alla madre di un soldato morto in Cecenia che aveva osato urlare disperata verso l'Imperatore Putin a una conferenza).

--->  "I piani di Putin per l'Europa", da ART, # 8, 15.04.2013 
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Poi  trascrivo un interessante articolo di EUobserver su questa brutta vicenda.

Nessuno osa dirlo esplicitamente: ma il sospetto che l'assassinio sia opera di sicari della potentissima "casta" al potere ("corte" dello zar Putin) è pressoché unanime.

Ma l'assassinio potrebbe essere stato ordito anche da estremisti ucraini filo-russi, dato che Nemtsov stava da tempo denunciando gli abusi russi in Ucraina, soprattutto l'infiltrazione in territorio ucraino di truppe regolari russe (oltre che il rifornimento di armi – anche pesanti! – ai  "secessionisti" filorussi).
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Ed ecco l'articolo di EUobserver.com

EU chair Latvia calls for 'answers' on Nemtsov killing - 28/02/2015 02:04:55
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The murder of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader, in central Moscow 
has prompted strong statements from some EU capitals and the US.
–––> https://euobserver.com/foreign/127825



EU chair Latvia calls for 'answers' on Nemtsov killing

• The murder took place on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, a stones throw from the Kremlin (Photo: Jon Deane)
  
  

By ANDREW RETTMAN 
TODAY, 02:04
The murder of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader, in central Moscow has prompted strong statements from some EU capitals and the US. 
Russian state media said he was shot four times at around 11.15pm local time on Friday (27 February) on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, a stone’s throw from the Kremlin, by an “unknown assailant” in a white car. 

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• Nemtsov had called for a rally against the Ukraine war shortly before he was killed (Photo: Sergey Rodovnichenko)
  

They said president Vladimir Putin was “immediately informed” and has launched an inquest which he will “personally head”.

They also said police were conducting a manhunt. 

The killing of the 55-year old politician, a former deputy prime minister and a father of four, came shortly after he’d spoken on the independent Ekho Moskvy radio station, urging people to join a rally, on 1 March, against the war in Ukraine. 

The first EU reaction came in a tweet by the foreign minister of Latvia, which currently holds the EU presidency.
 
“Horrible news … condolences to family, Russia must conduct swift, non-partial investigation, provide answers”, Edgars Rinkevics said.

Zygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s ambassador to the US, was more strident. “Time 4Russian people 2wake up & defend their dignity. #Putinkiller preparing Russia 4totalitarian rule. Road 2hell. RIP Nemtsov”, his tweet said.

For his part, US president Barack Obama echoed Latvia's plea, calling for "a prompt, impartial, and transparent investigation into the circumstances of his murder". 

He described Nemtsov as "a tireless advocate for his country, seeking for his fellow Russian citizens the rights to which all people are entitled".

Suspicion

Inside Russia fellow opposition activists pointed the finger at the authorities or their supporters. 

“Nemtsov … criticised the most important state officials in our country, including president Vladimir Putin. As we have seen, such criticism in Russia is dangerous for one's life”, Ilya Yashin told Ekho Moskvy.

Nemtsov’s lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov, told Kommersant, a liberal daily: “I'm sure that this has a political motive, and that the murder could have been committed by someone returning from the conflict zone in south-eastern Ukraine”. 

According to Reuters, Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Russian PM, told reporters at the scene of the crime: "That a leader of the opposition could be shot beside the walls of the Kremlin is beyond imagination. There can be only one version: that he was shot for telling the truth”.

The Kremlin also described the murder as political, but hinted that the motive is to create instability. 

"Putin noted that the violent murder bears the marks of a contract killing and is purely provocative," Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the Tass news agency, a state mouthpiece. 

The Nemtsov killing is the latest in a series of high-profile murders of anti-corruption activists, human rights campaigners, and Kremlin critics under Putin’s leadership.

The list includes, but is not limited to, Alexei Devotchenko, Natalia Estemirova, Alexander Litvinenko (killed in the UK), Sergei Magnitsky, Stanislav Markelov, and Anna Politkovskaya. 

The responsible persons have not been brought to justice in any of the cases. 

Sanctions

The EU and US have imposed sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. 

The US has also imposed separate sanctions over the Magnitsky case on human rights grounds.

But the EU has refused to do so, with diplomats saying they can't prove who killed him and that they can't set a precedent of imposing blacklists for the sake of individual criminal cases overseas.

Bill Browder, Magnitsky’s former employer, who is campaigning for the EU to follow suit with its own Magnitsky-linked blacklist, said: “Last night Russia entered a new and dark phase in its slide toward totalitarian dictatorship”. 
“I can only hope that Boris Nemtsov's legacy will ultimately bring about the democratic change in Russia he worked his whole life to achieve”.

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I sospetti sui mandanti dell'assassinio di Nemtsov provocano una grande manifestazione anti Putim a Mosca (con decine di migliaia di manifestanti, con cartelli e striscioni con la scritta: «Non abbiamo paura», oppure: «Putin vattene via!».


Ma molti "nazionalisti" russi inondano Twitter con frasi  come: «Gli USA hanno assassinato Nemtsov per creare instabilità in Russia».


Le ipotesi che arrivano dalle autorità russe sono molteplici. Tra queste anche che ad uccidere Nemtsov sia stata proprio l'amica ucraina in compagnia della quale Nemtsov tornava a piedi dal ristorante a casa sua.


Prendo ancora notizie da EUobserver.com.
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Nemtsov murder prompts major anti-Putin rally - 02/03/2015 09:20:20
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Tens of thousands of people attended a rally in Moscow to mark the murder 
of an opposition leader, in the biggest show of defiance in four years.


https://euobserver.com/foreign/127837
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Nemtsov murder prompts major anti-Putin rally

• Nemtsov was shot dead a stone's throw from the Kremlin (Photo: Jay Springett)
  
  

By ANDREW RETTMAN 

SAN DIEGO, US, 2. MAR, 09:20

Tens of thousands of people attended a rally in Moscow to mark the murder of an opposition leader, in the biggest show of defiance in four years. 

Russian police put the numbers on Sunday (1 March) at 21,000, but independent Russian media and the organisers of the event said between 50,000 and 70,000 people joined it following the killing of Boris Nemtsov on Friday. 

People carried placards which said "I am not afraid”, “He died for the future of Russia”, and “Fight on!”. 

The rally saw a heavy police presence, with 50-or-so arrests on public disorder charges. It was peaceful, but some protesters yelled provocative slogans against Russian leader Vladimir Putin as they approached the Kremlin, the BBC reports, with chants of “Russia without Putin!" and "Putin, leave!”. 

The rally was the largest show of defiance against authorities since 2011 and dwarfed any of the tiny anti-Ukraine war events in the past year. 

The killing also attracted the attention of EU and US leaders and the UN, all of which have called for a full and transparent investigation.

German chancellor Angela Merkel said she is “dismayed by the devious murder”. France’s Francois Hollande called it “an odious assassination”. The UK’s David Cameron called it “callous” and “despicable”. 

For her part, EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini hinted at a political motive. 

“He was killed just before a demonstration against the effects of the economic crisis and the conflict in Ukraine which he was organising”, she said in a statement. 
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, who is to meet his Russian opposite number, Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva this week also indicated he will press him for extra information. 

But there is little hope either that Putin’s investigators will catch the killers or that the murder will lead to political change. 

With the opposition pointing the finger at the authorities, Russian officials at the weekend began disseminating various other theories. 

They indicated Nemtsov might have been killed: by the opposition in order to discredit Putin; by Russian “ultra-nationalists”; by Islamic extremists; or by his Ukrainian girlfriend’s jealous lover. 

At the same time, Russian users of Twitter began flooding the social media site with accusations the US did it to stir instability. 

“Judging by the hundreds, if not thousands of tweets in my ‘notifications’ saying ‘USA killed Nemtsov’, it’s obvious that it’s [a] paid campaign”, Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Moscow wrote. 

“So depressing to read this”.

Commenting on the weekend’s developments, Russian dissident and former chess champion, Garry Kasparov, who lives in the US, told Reuters: “I see no chance for Russia now to move from Putin's brutal dictatorship into something that will be even [as] mild as we had 10 years ago”. 

Gennady Gudkov, another opposition activist, said that if Putin doesn't stop his “campaign of hate” against critics “then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict”.

For his part, Mark Galeotti, a leading US scholar on Russia, noted: “Numbers [the turnout at the rally] were good. But one could feel that it was shock and horror, rather than hope, or initiative, that brought people out”.

Galeotti wrote in his blog that his “working hypothesis is that Nemtsov was killed by some murderous mavericks, not government agents, nor opposition fanatics”.

But he said Putin’s nationalist propaganda created the political and psychological climate which led to the murder. 

Alexander Baunov, a senior analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, added: “Putin will most likely try to investigate a killing that does him no favours ... but it’s more than likely that he will eventually have to stop as soon as the investigation runs into some friends or allies, or friends of the allies, or perhaps active opponents of the enemies of the state”.

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Non conoscevo Nemtsov.
Di lui riporto un ricordo di Bersani:
"Questa mattina ho appreso con tristezza della tragica uccisione di Boris Nemtsov. Lo avevo conosciuto a Mosca nel 1998 in occasione del primo G8 dedicato ai temi energetici. Era anche il primo G8 della Russia e Nemtsov aveva allora 38 anni ed era il giovane e brillante primo vice primo ministro di Boris Eltsin, con delega alle riforme del settore energetico e alle liberalizzazioni. Aveva sentito parlare delle riforme che avevamo iniziato a fare in Italia in vari settori e volle conoscermi per parlare di quel processo di cambiamento in atto. Mi colpirono la sua curiosità e la sua apertura di idee, che trovai abbastanza singolare. Voglio ricordarlo ed esprimere il mio cordoglio."

Qualunque fosse la sua visione della politica non doveva finire ammazzato a tradimento in una strada di Mosca. Lui poteva anche avere posizioni politiche non condivisibili, ma chi lo ha ucciso è un assassino senza attenuanti di sorta. Purtroppo la Russia è un paese in cui certi poteri forti, hanno l'ardire di commettere tali atti riprovevoli. Non che queste cose non accadano anche altrove, come i Kennedy negli USA o Moro e Mattarella da noi, ma oggi il focus è sui motivi e sulle persone che hanno compiuto questo nuovo barbaro crimine.

Esprimo anche io il mio cordoglio.