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[SIZE=+7]PUTIN CRITIC SHOT DEAD AT KREMLIN

[/SIZE] MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister who was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead meters from the Kremlin in central Moscow late on Friday.

Nemtsov, 55, was shot four times in the back, the Interior Ministry said. A police spokeswoman on the scene said he had been walking on a bridge over the Moskva River with a Ukrainian woman.

Putin condemned the killing and took the investigation under presidential command, saying it could have been a contract killing and a "provocation" on the eve of a big opposition protest that Nemtsov had been due to lead in Moscow on Sunday.


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Putin appears now to be an isolated, paranoid figure even amongst the Russian political establishment. The government in corrupt, ineffective, dysfunctional. It got away with things as long as the economy, built on oil exports, was operating with the appearance of effectiveness. In fact most of Russia is living in deprivation and poverty. The state media presents a picture of prosperity and hope that belies the real condition in which most Russians live.

Like all tyrants, he is ever more distanced from the reality on the ground, surrounded by sycophants and cynical security operatives he lashes out murderously against opponents. He lives in a psychological fantasy that he alone possesses the vision of Russia's future, even as he loots the Russian economy, perhaps to extent of $70 billion, all stashed away in hidden assets and accounts.

He's the richest man on earth and he's got absolutely nowhere to run if things start to unravel. He either survives in power or he spends the rest of his life in a Siberian prison camp, in the unlikely event that he survives at all. What we see is an ever more desperate, utterly amoral man, driven by ambition, delusion and fear.

As the Russian economy declines, Putin will not be able to hold things together. He taps into long held Russian suspicions of the West, but that won't be able to compensate decline of public trust at home as collapse envelops its productive sector. I think Russia is on the verge of a violent rebellion, that has been building since the onset of oligarchs and the Yeltsin/Putin kleptocracy. It could happen within a year or two, and nobody can predict what that will lead to.
 
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coldstream said:
Putin appears now to be an isolated, paranoid figure even amongst the Russian political establishment. The government in corrupt, ineffective, dysfunctional. It got away with things as long as the economy, built on oil exports, was operating with the appearance of effectiveness. In fact most of Russia is living in deprivation and poverty. The state media presents a picture of prosperity and hope that belies the real condition in which most Russians live.

Like all tyrants, he is ever more distanced from the reality on the ground, surrounded by sycophants and cynical security operatives he lashes out murderously against opponents. He lives in a psychological fantasy that he alone possesses the vision of Russia's future, even as he loots the Russian economy, perhaps to extent of $70 billion, all stashed away in hidden assets and accounts.

He's the richest man on earth and he's got absolutely nowhere to run if things start to unravel. He either survives in power or he spends the rest of his life in a Siberian prison camp, in the unlikely event that he survives at all. What we see is an ever more desperate, utterly amoral man, driven by ambition, delusion and fear.

As the Russian economy declines, Putin will not be able to hold things together. He taps into long held Russian suspicions of the West, but that won't be able to compensate decline of public trust at home as collapse envelops its productive sector. I think Russia is on the verge of a violent rebellion, that has been building since the onset of oligarchs and the Yeltsin/Putin kleptocracy. It could happen within a year or two, and nobody can predict what that will lead to.
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It will be entertaining to watch.
 
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??? I don't think Putin is going to start bombing Moscow. I'll bet lots of people are looking over their shoulders today though, like all those US Gov sponsored 'liberation groups'. I wonder if the Kremlin will do a vid on it that matches the passenger jet shoy down by Kiev. I wonder who is going to write Porky's speech and I already shudder to thinker what 'The Harper' is going to say. Putin should silently look at him and blow the smoke away from a smoking finger. Wait, that would be Harper's style.

http://rt.com/news/236479-putin-nemtsov-death-pledge/
 
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6th suspect in Boris Nemtsov's killing dies in suicide, report says - CNN.com

Russia is reporting arrests of the Boris Nemtsov murder suspects. But the whole thing is wrapped up in mystery as to motive and follows to the letter the Putin playbook. Nothing that comes from his political organs can be trusted.

Like the apartment bombings in Moscow and environs of 1999, which killed 300, and which Putin himself certainly orchestrated, he drew the investigation into his own office.. then quickly produced the perpetrators. Not surprisingly they came from the rebellious southern republics of Russia, the target of much bigotry in Russia proper.

Here he's arrested Chechens. You cannot imagine a less likely group to murder a prominent Russian dissident than Chechen rebels, archenemies of Putin. Sooner or later they either confess under 'interrogation', or die by accident or suicide.

This is very familiar pattern with Putin enemies. And he's got away with it. But even the amazing capacity for credulity, suffering and hatred of things foreign of the the Russian people cannot hide the obvious. Putin is trapped, isolated, incompetent and lashing out at enemies as the perimeters of his administration start to implode by way of economic crisis.

Stay tuned, i think the forces mobilizing against him amongst true Russian patriots will gain traction in the near future.
 
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