Updated: Russian Leader Implicated in Death Of Spy in UK

Posted January 21, 2016 8:05 PM ET; Last updated January 22, 2016 5:08 PM ET


Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent

Photo: AFP/Getty Images

[From article]
Vladamir Putin may have ordered the murder of Alexander Litvinenko after he claimed the Russian President was a practising paedophile, it was revealed today.
Mr Litvinenko accused his rival of abusing children just weeks before two assassins slipped radioactive polonium 210 into his cup of tea in a London hotel in October 2006.
The former Russian spy, who joined MI6, wrote in an article: 'He (Putin) was a paedophile' and said a picture of the president kissing the stomach of a young boy near the Kremlin was the evidence.
Describing the incident on the Chechenpress website in July 2006 he said: 'Putin kneeled, lifted the boy’s T-shirt and kissed his stomach. Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy'.


Feud: Alexander Litvinenko accused his rival of abusing children and said a picture of Putin kissing a boy's stomach (right) proved it just weeks before two assassins slipped radioactive polonium 210 into his cup of tea in a London hotel in October 2006.

Litvinenko also taunted Putin by claiming a film of him abusing young boys existed.
Sir Robert Owen said today in a major report on his murder that Mr Putin 'probably' ordered it and admitted Litvinenko's 'highly personal attacks' may be a motive for his death.[. . .]
Mr Litvinenko - who had accused the Russian president on his death bed - was killed by two FSB spies who slipped radioactive polonium 210 into his tea pot at a Mayfair hotel in central London, Sir Robert Owen said today in a major report.
Prime Minister David Cameron today said the report outlined what happened was 'absolutely appalling' but he admitted the Syria crisis meant Britain had to have a relationship with Russia albeit one with 'clear eyes and a cold heart'.
Mr Cameron said the last Labour government had reacted properly to the killing in 2007 once the 'state sponsored nature of the assassination had become clear.
He said the Government had done the right thing today by ensuring Interpol warrants were in place the assassins and freezing their UK assets.
But as the war of words escalated, a spokesman for Putin said 'such a quasi-investigation such as the one being talked about today undoubtedly is able only to still further poison the atmosphere of our bilateral relations'. 

Marina Litvinenko, holding a copy of today's report, has urged the British government to take harsh action against Russia based on the findings.

Mr Litvinenko's widow Marina urged Britain to impose sanctions on Russia has a result of the findings which today prompted the Russian Ambassador to claim there had been a 'whitewash' to cover up the 'incompetence' of the UK's security services.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3409405/Inquiry-says-Litvinenko-killed-Putin-s-spies.html

Putin ordered Litvinenko's murder after he accused Russian President of being a PAEDOPHILE: Murdered KGB spy claimed there was video of him molesting underage boys
Litvinenko claimed Putin 'was a paedophile' filmed abusing young boys
Murder victim also claimed president kissing boy's stomach was evidence
Four months after bombshell article Litvinenko was poisoned in hotel
New report into Litvinenko's murder blamed two Russian spies
Putin may have ordered his death because of vicious war of words, it says
Moscow mocks it as 'British humour' and ambassador calls it a whitewash
PM ways UK's relationship with Russia is with 'clear eyes and a cold heart'
By TIM SCULTHORPE, MAILONLINE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and MARTIN ROBINSON, UK CHIEF REPORTER and ARTHUR MARTIN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 20:09 EST, 20 January 2016 | UPDATED: 07:24 EST, 22 January 2016

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[From article]

The Russian government likely ordered Alexander Litvinenko’s assassination in part because he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a pedophile, a British inquiry concluded Thursday.
In the 300-page report, retired High Court judge Sir Robert Owen said Putin “probably” ordered the hit against Alexander Litvinenko, and used his position as head of Russian intelligence to destroy video evidence of himself having sex with underage boys — which was “the climax” of a bitter feud between the two men.
Owen said the personal attacks were among the “powerful motives” for the assassination.
“I am satisfied that, in general terms, members of the Putin administration, including the president himself and the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service], had motives for taking action against Litvinenko, including killing him,” Owen wrote.
The former spy’s “highly personal attacks” on the Russian strongman appeared in an article on the Chechenpress website four months before he was poisoned, the Independent reported.
His piece, which was published as evidence in Owen’s report, described a meeting between Putin and a boy “aged four or five” near the Kremlin.
“Putin kneeled, lifted the boy’s T-shirt and kissed his stomach,” Litvinenko wrote.
“Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy.”
[. . .]
The report found that ex-KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoy and another Russian, Dmitry Kovtun, carried out the November 2006 assassination in London’s Millennium Hotel, dumping massive amounts of polonium-210 into Litvinenko’s tea, as part of an operation probably directed by the FSB.
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“Maybe this is a joke,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “More likely it can be attributed to fine British humor — the fact that an open public inquiry is based on the classified data of special services, unnamed special services.”

http://nypost.com/2016/01/21/murdered-ex-spy-accused-putin-of-pedophilia/

Ex-KGB spy was killed because he claimed Putin was a pedophile
By Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
January 21, 2016 | 12:12pm | Updated

Updated: Russian Opposition Politician Shot Dead In Moscow, Suspect Arrested, Tortured

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.

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".
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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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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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

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Used Taxpayer Funds to Prepare Their Attack on Americans

Two bombing suspects (white and black caps) can be seen in rear of this photo. Two of their victims who died from their bombs can be seen in the front of this photo moments before the bomb went off. 

Once again public safety priorities exhibit at best, misguidance, more likely intentional negligence. No one was watching these legal immigrants. No police. No FBI. No crime families. No Communists. Even after Russian intelligence officials warned US intelligence about one of these brothers. While these young men were assembling their bombs, gathering their equipment and beating their women, the same misguided local police in Cambridge, taking turns with Harvard University campus cops, crime families, FBI informants, and Communists conducted a brutal, relentless 24/7/365 campaign of surveillance, harassment, character assassination, threats, provocations, intimidation, ridicule, and humiliation of a now 70-year-old white male native born citizen. For 15 years the FBI used me to fight organized crime. They now permit the same crime families to conduct the above mentioned abuses on property owned and operated by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. I live one mile from where these two bombing suspects lived. Beginning on or about April 1, 2013 another police employee of Somerville MA police (reportedly working for the Kennedy cult) took command of the above mentioned criminal abuses. He was joined by Communists from New Hampshire. They use young women as bait, trying to have me arrested and disturbing my sleep as a daily  provocation. The newest, just appointed District Attorney for Middlesex MA told me that their office was too busy with homicides to address lesser crimes. We can look forward to more criminal abuses by public officials thanks to this appointment by the Massachusetts Governor, the BFF of Obama the misguided President. They are both Harvard Law School graduates.

[From article]
McCarthy also noted how the investigation really should have been much more extensive before the bombing. The FBI is coming under scrutiny following reports that Russia tipped off the U.S. about Tsarnaev. The bureau did investigate the elder brother but closed the case after finding nothing overly alarming. McCarthy said some changes definitely need to be made on that front.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/massachusetts-guards-bombing-suspects-privacy/

BOSTON MASSACRE 2013
BUREAUCRATS: DEAD TERRORIST'S RIGHTS TRUMP PUBLIC'S
'Privacy': Agencies won't share details on taxpayer benefits given to brothers
Garth Kant
April 25, 2013

Russian Politician's Body Found In Barrel of Cement

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280626/Mikhail-Pakhomov-Missing-Russian-politician-dead-encased-barrel-fresh-CEMENT.html

Missing Russian politician found dead encased in barrel of fresh CEMENT
Russian politician Mikhail Pakhomov was abducted in Lipetsk last week
His body was found encased in cement in a garage in Moscow
Eight people have been arrested over his kidnapping and murder
By SARA MALM
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 13:41 EST, 18 February 2013 | UPDATED: 13:44 EST, 18 February 2013

Russian Throws Money Away in Car Chase

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Russian-official-tosses-millions-in.6388439.jp

Russian official tosses millions in cash onto road
29 June 2010
The Scotsman
By AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN