Posted March 1, 2015 8:15 PM ET; Last updated March 12, 2015 9:24 PM ET
The attendance has yet to be confirmed but runs into the tens of thousands.
Zaur Dadayev, charged with involvement in the murder of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, appears to have been tortured and was forced to confess to the shooting, according to a human rights activist.
Photo: Reuters
[From article]
Andrei Babushkin, a member of a Russian human rights commission [. . .] told the Associated Press that he visited the detention center where main suspect Zaur Dadayev had been held on Tuesday.
Babushkin said there were abrasions on Dadayev’s body and that he had been “tortured by those who detained him” and later taken to the Investigative Committee, where “he was forced to confess.”
Five people have been detained in connection with Nemtsov’s shooting on Feb. 27. Dadayev was the only one who, according to a judge, confessed to the killing, though in court he didn’t admit guilt.
[From article]
Andrei Babushkin, a member of a Russian human rights commission [. . .] told the Associated Press that he visited the detention center where main suspect Zaur Dadayev had been held on Tuesday.
Babushkin said there were abrasions on Dadayev’s body and that he had been “tortured by those who detained him” and later taken to the Investigative Committee, where “he was forced to confess.”
Five people have been detained in connection with Nemtsov’s shooting on Feb. 27. Dadayev was the only one who, according to a judge, confessed to the killing, though in court he didn’t admit guilt.
http://nypost.com/2015/03/11/suspect-in-nemtsov-killing-tortured-and-forced-to-confess/
Suspect in Nemtsov killing ‘tortured and forced to confess’
By Associated Press
New York Post
March 11, 2015 | 9:17am * * *
[From article]
There has been no official figure on turnout yet, with estimates ranging from 16,000 to 70,000.
Many people carried the national flag and flowers to lay at the scene of the killing, which was already piled with tributes. A few were holding Ukrainian flags.
Some of the placards read: "He died for the future of Russia" and "They were afraid of you, Boris".
Maria Glazacheva, a 22-year-old student in Moscow who joined the march, told the BBC: "Boris was a good and honest man. Moscow is a sad place today."
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin told Associated Press the killing was "a political murder aimed at frightening the... part of the population that supported Nemtsov and did not agree with the government. I hope we won't get scared".
Another opposition figure, Gennady Gudkov, told Reuters: "If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict."
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov's friends are certain he died for daring to speak out against corruption, against Mr Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule and against the conflict in Ukraine that Russia denies any role in. Boris Nemtsov called it President Putin's "mad, aggressive war."
But above all - there's anger here, at the fervently nationalist mood that Mr Putin's policies have created. One that's fanned each day, by state television.
Russia has become a country where critics are labelled traitors. And now, one of the sharpest voices of dissent has been silenced.
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov called for "honest elections" hours before he was killed
Russia's Investigative Committee said it was looking into a number of possible motives for Mr Nemtsov's murder.
They include his opposition to the Ukraine conflict, Islamic extremism - Mr Nemtsov was Jewish - and an opposition "sacrifice" of its leader to destabilise the state and undermine the president.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin had noted "that this cruel murder has all the makings of a contract hit and is extremely provocative".
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov, 55, had been dining at a restaurant with his girlfriend Anna Duritskaya on Friday night.
They left together to walk to his flat, crossing the bridge, where a white car drew up and Mr Nemtsov was shot four times with a pistol at around 23:40 (20:40 GMT).
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31677506
1 March 2015 Last updated at 13:39 ET
Boris Nemtsov murder: Tens of thousands march in Moscow
BBC
* * *
Ukrainian model Anna Duritskaya, 23, had a 4-year romance with slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and was with him when he was assassinated.
[From article]
According to a source in the Russian police, the young woman had “a very close personal romantic relationship” with the murdered politician, says TV program Vesti. That relationship is already four years old – since she was 19 years-old, in other words.
[. . .]
The couple had dinner at around 11 pm Moscow time and then left the mall and went for a walk toward Vasilievsky embankment right by the Kremlin walls. Their intended destination was the posh building half a mile away from the Kremlin where the murdered politician had an apartment.
As they were crossing the Big New-Moskva Bridge, an unidentified man ran out of the underpass of the bridge and shot Mr. Nemtsov multiple times. Then he jumped into the passing white car without a license plate.
Mr. Nemtsov died on the scene.
[. . .]
The victim, his ‘wife’ Ekaterina Odintsova, and their children. Nemtsov’s complicated romantic life has introduced irresistible intrigue into the fast-moving investigation.
Boris Nemtsov is survived by his four children from three of his different ‘wives’.
Mr. Nemtsov had a very unusual—some would say scandalous—relationship with a row of women. Although never divorced from his wife Raisa, during the last 20 years of his life he lived openly with a number of different female civil partners. He has one daughter with his wife Raisa, a son and a daughter with the socialite and TV host Ekaterina Odintsova and a daughter with his former secretary Irina Koroleva, who used to work for the Administration of the Russian President.
[. . .]
According to Mr. Nemtsov’s friend, while celebrating his 50th anniversary, Mr. Nemtsov had all his “wives” and children at the same table. He also never hid the fact that for a number of years he had a “relationship” with one Anastasia Ogneva, Dni.ru reports.
The spotlight on the complicated personal life of the opposition leader burned brightly after the organized leak of his private telephone conversation about opposition journalist and socialite Bozhena Rynska exactly two years ago. During this conversation, Mr. Nemtsov had this to say about his colleague from the opposition: “F**k her! She is The B***h! Just because I did not f**k her she was washing my dirty laundry and putting me down in her paper for a year. And she was writing not on the theme of me f**king her. Let’s organize the Club of Those Who Never F**ked Bozhena Rynsky!”
http://observer.com/2015/03/ukrainian-girlfriend-of-slain-russian-key-to-the-case/
Slain Russian’s Complicated Romantic Life May Be Key to the Case
Boris Nemtsov's tangled love life is revealed as model Anna Duritskaya helps police piece puzzle together
By Mikhail Klikushin
Suspect in Nemtsov killing ‘tortured and forced to confess’
By Associated Press
New York Post
March 11, 2015 | 9:17am * * *
[From article]
There has been no official figure on turnout yet, with estimates ranging from 16,000 to 70,000.
Many people carried the national flag and flowers to lay at the scene of the killing, which was already piled with tributes. A few were holding Ukrainian flags.
Some of the placards read: "He died for the future of Russia" and "They were afraid of you, Boris".
Maria Glazacheva, a 22-year-old student in Moscow who joined the march, told the BBC: "Boris was a good and honest man. Moscow is a sad place today."
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin told Associated Press the killing was "a political murder aimed at frightening the... part of the population that supported Nemtsov and did not agree with the government. I hope we won't get scared".
Another opposition figure, Gennady Gudkov, told Reuters: "If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict."
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov's friends are certain he died for daring to speak out against corruption, against Mr Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule and against the conflict in Ukraine that Russia denies any role in. Boris Nemtsov called it President Putin's "mad, aggressive war."
But above all - there's anger here, at the fervently nationalist mood that Mr Putin's policies have created. One that's fanned each day, by state television.
Russia has become a country where critics are labelled traitors. And now, one of the sharpest voices of dissent has been silenced.
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov called for "honest elections" hours before he was killed
Russia's Investigative Committee said it was looking into a number of possible motives for Mr Nemtsov's murder.
They include his opposition to the Ukraine conflict, Islamic extremism - Mr Nemtsov was Jewish - and an opposition "sacrifice" of its leader to destabilise the state and undermine the president.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin had noted "that this cruel murder has all the makings of a contract hit and is extremely provocative".
[. . .]
Mr Nemtsov, 55, had been dining at a restaurant with his girlfriend Anna Duritskaya on Friday night.
They left together to walk to his flat, crossing the bridge, where a white car drew up and Mr Nemtsov was shot four times with a pistol at around 23:40 (20:40 GMT).
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31677506
1 March 2015 Last updated at 13:39 ET
Boris Nemtsov murder: Tens of thousands march in Moscow
BBC
* * *
Ukrainian model Anna Duritskaya, 23, had a 4-year romance with slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and was with him when he was assassinated.
[From article]
According to a source in the Russian police, the young woman had “a very close personal romantic relationship” with the murdered politician, says TV program Vesti. That relationship is already four years old – since she was 19 years-old, in other words.
[. . .]
The couple had dinner at around 11 pm Moscow time and then left the mall and went for a walk toward Vasilievsky embankment right by the Kremlin walls. Their intended destination was the posh building half a mile away from the Kremlin where the murdered politician had an apartment.
As they were crossing the Big New-Moskva Bridge, an unidentified man ran out of the underpass of the bridge and shot Mr. Nemtsov multiple times. Then he jumped into the passing white car without a license plate.
Mr. Nemtsov died on the scene.
[. . .]
The victim, his ‘wife’ Ekaterina Odintsova, and their children. Nemtsov’s complicated romantic life has introduced irresistible intrigue into the fast-moving investigation.
Boris Nemtsov is survived by his four children from three of his different ‘wives’.
Mr. Nemtsov had a very unusual—some would say scandalous—relationship with a row of women. Although never divorced from his wife Raisa, during the last 20 years of his life he lived openly with a number of different female civil partners. He has one daughter with his wife Raisa, a son and a daughter with the socialite and TV host Ekaterina Odintsova and a daughter with his former secretary Irina Koroleva, who used to work for the Administration of the Russian President.
[. . .]
According to Mr. Nemtsov’s friend, while celebrating his 50th anniversary, Mr. Nemtsov had all his “wives” and children at the same table. He also never hid the fact that for a number of years he had a “relationship” with one Anastasia Ogneva, Dni.ru reports.
The spotlight on the complicated personal life of the opposition leader burned brightly after the organized leak of his private telephone conversation about opposition journalist and socialite Bozhena Rynska exactly two years ago. During this conversation, Mr. Nemtsov had this to say about his colleague from the opposition: “F**k her! She is The B***h! Just because I did not f**k her she was washing my dirty laundry and putting me down in her paper for a year. And she was writing not on the theme of me f**king her. Let’s organize the Club of Those Who Never F**ked Bozhena Rynsky!”
http://observer.com/2015/03/ukrainian-girlfriend-of-slain-russian-key-to-the-case/
Slain Russian’s Complicated Romantic Life May Be Key to the Case
Boris Nemtsov's tangled love life is revealed as model Anna Duritskaya helps police piece puzzle together
By Mikhail Klikushin
03/01/15 12:05am
* * *
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/28/death-on-the-kremlins-doorstep-nemtsov-putin-russia/
CHRISTIAN CARYL
Death on the Kremlin’s Doorstep
The killing of Boris Nemtsov heralds a new era of darkness for Russia’s already battered opposition.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
CHRISTIAN.CARYL
@CCARYL
* * *
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/28/death-on-the-kremlins-doorstep-nemtsov-putin-russia/
CHRISTIAN CARYL
Death on the Kremlin’s Doorstep
The killing of Boris Nemtsov heralds a new era of darkness for Russia’s already battered opposition.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
CHRISTIAN.CARYL
@CCARYL
No comments:
Post a Comment