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Общество3 марта 2015 18:39

Who Gains from this Murder?

By Sharon Tennison, head of Center for Citizen Initiatives (USA)
Источник:kp.ru
None of us have any idea who ordered or carried out the killing of Nemtsov––and we may never know.

None of us have any idea who ordered or carried out the killing of Nemtsov––and we may never know.

Фото: Кристина КОРМИЛИЦЫНА

As the publicity mounts over the Boris Nemtsov murder, these are my impressions:

None of us have any idea who ordered or carried out the killing of Nemtsov––and we may never know.

We do know that America's mainstream media will construe this as a murder instigated by Vladimir Putin.

I've watched Boris Nemtsov since he first came on the scene as a seemingly "brilliant" young Governor from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in the early 1990s. He arrived in Moscow where he tried his hand at various posts and activities surrounding the Yeltsin government and was one of Yeltsin's many Vice Premiers. At that time numbers of active young Russian men (and a few women) were vying for the different new positions that were opening up in Moscow. The competition was fierce and the movement was constant.

I had such high hope for Nemtsov. He was verbal, always out in front founding one organization or another. After a while it became clear that Nemtsov could be a good front person, but he couldn't seem to come up with rational, organized proposals for bringing the New Russia into some semblance of order and stability. In the 1990s both were imperative. Russia was a wild, uncontrolled, increasingly criminal place following the implosion of the USSR. Old laws were gone, new laws were yet to be written, the ruble was worthless, corruption was rampant, murders were occurring daily. Russian people were forced to survive by bartering anything they had, that someone else might want. The country was in dire straits and the situation begged for solutions on how to survive this mass chaos, lawlessness and criminality.

My impression was of Nemtsov always making speeches, getting attention, but short on planning or solution making. Many of us were scanning the Moscow scene looking for other young personalities who might be sufficiently organized to get Russia moving beyond its deep mire before it collapsed and fragmented.

It seemed to me from then on, Nemtsov was passed over, yet he was still around making himself known. He gravitated toward being an opposition voice where he remained until his demise, I supposed due to the fact that was about the only role left open to him.

I always thought of him as having an excellent "out there" personality, but not enough instincts to meet Russia's need at the time––it was unfortunate that he became somewhat of a "poor loser", criticizing others who had gone on beyond him. However, this was true of quite a few Russians who floated around the periphery at that time. It seems this is not uncommon for people everywhere who have extrovert personalities, loud voices and large aspirations, yet lack the well-honed instincts to move up the ladders to positions for which they yearn.

Would Putin have wanted Nemtsov dead?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

He would have done anything to prevent this murder -- along with the accusations that invariably will come from the West.

Nemtsov was a nobody to Putin and the Russian population.

Anything he complained of had been complained about over and over by others -- it was old stuff.

Information about corruption around Sochi events? The pros/cons on this are old and well rehearsed by many.

Stopping the demonstration in Moscow? It was to be tiny -- why would Putin be interested in this?

Some new happening in Ukraine that Nemtsov was privy to, not a chance.

In my opinion, Nemtsov's murder was either some unknown personal vendetta or a Nationalist of one stripe or another, or this murder contract was carried out to create more negative publicity with which to demonize Putin and Russia.

The question is, Who gains from this murder? Who loses from this murder?

Читайте перевод статьи на русский: Кому выгодно убийство Бориса Немцова – вот в чем вопрос!