Who was killed on the bridge near Red Square. Murder of Boris Nemtsov: There were two cars and four perpetrators. Who bullied and threatened

10.03.2015

No matter how you look at it, the most inappropriate place was chosen for the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. Firstly, in full view. Secondly, there should be special services around. Thirdly, by and large, if something goes wrong, there is nowhere to hide.

This choice of killers can only be explained by the specifics of the order. And the desire not only to shoot a person, but also to actually do it publicly.

According to the official version, the murder of Boris Nemtsov was committed at this very place. Today there is a huge mountain of flowers laid here. And small posters. There are candles around the parapet.

The place of the politician’s death from the other side, that is, if you look at Red Square. The Kremlin wall is very close, across the road. Below the parapet of the bridge is Vasilievsky Descent.

Video cameras on poles: not on every pole, but they still exist. Some of them are aimed at the road, and some should cover the sidewalk.

However, it should be noted that in the “spy” business, the mess is the same as everywhere else. One of two things: either it was sculpted by Soviet specialists, or somehow for kickbacks. The tangle of wires is such that they are simply networks: not a single Rust will fly by anymore.

Obviously, the video filming shown on the TVC channel was conducted from the opposite side. But not opposite, but further from the Kremlin. There's nothing directly across the street.

In addition to the cameras on the poles, they are most likely located on this nearby building.

In fact, most likely, there should be a camera on the nearest Kremlin tower. It is aimed directly at the bridge.

There are a lot of police around today - literally a squad of two or three people every ten meters.

We can say that today everything is under control. The enemy will not pass on either side, either by land or by water. Apparently, like on that ill-fated evening, they will not throw themselves in front of the killer’s bullets, but this time they will probably conscientiously write down the license plate number of the departing car.

In media reports, a version was voiced that the killer was waiting for the victim on the stairs leading to Vasilyevsky Spusk. This is the view from it. Ahead is a parking lot where the driver could wait for the moment. Then, most likely, the killer, when Nemtsov was already on the bridge, walked towards him along the stairs, and the driver drove straight, turned right and ended up on the spot to pick up his accomplice. In general, this is the only exit from the parking lot, this is how traffic is organized here, and straight ahead is Red Square.

View of the stairs on which the killer could wait for his victim, from the other side, from below. Here, under the bridge, there is an incomprehensible “institution”. What is behind the doors is unknown. There is no sign. Everything is shabby, like everywhere else in the center of Moscow, if not visible to foreigners.

It is no coincidence that the bridge on which Boris Nemtsov was killed is called Bolshoy Zamoskvoretsky. It is quite long and offers a view of the Moscow Kremlin. Today, many people take photographs of the view.

It is truly sad that one of the most beautiful places in Moscow, overlooking the Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, which is popularly called St. Basil's Cathedral, became the site of the murder of a worthy man.

But if you cross the bridge, the beautiful picture for tourists ends. And construction begins. This is the view that opens up if you look over the parapet. In fact, here you can not only kill a person, but also hide the body on Friday so that it will only be found on Monday.

And if you go even further along Bolshaya Ordynka Street towards the house where Boris Nemtsov lived, then there are places where it was possible to wait for the victim much more safely. For example, on the left, where the sidewalk appears to be on two levels.

I would not like to draw any conclusions. However, there are some points worth paying attention to. First of all, the option voiced in a number of sources seems acceptable and possible. The killer and the driver could have been in the car under the stairs in the parking lot. Someone else should have given them the start command when Boris Nemtsov and his companion were already walking across the bridge.

Next, the direct perpetrator climbs the steps, walks towards the victim, passes by, turns around and shoots in the back. During this time, the driver drives straight towards Red Square, then right and right again, onto the bridge, where he picks up the killer. Then they flee the crime scene together.

Second point: cameras are there - everywhere. They can be seen with naked gas from all sides. Therefore, choosing this particular place to commit a crime could have been done either by a suicide, or by a person who was convinced of a very serious cover-up, and by several “offices.”

Moreover, the choice seems strange, considering that just 50-100 meters further from the center it is a thousand times easier to commit a crime. In addition, there are escape routes if something unexpected happens. And from the place of Boris Nemtsov’s murder there is only one road leading - forward along the bridge.

Thus, it turns out that the criminals actually committed murder in the most inappropriate place. They could not help but understand that later it would be broadcast almost online, later or later. Not to mention the evidence left behind - video camera recordings.

It is quite possible that this was the will of the customer. But it’s worth emphasizing that you have to be completely frostbitten to take on such a performance. And there will be many more versions of why the crime was committed this way.

Everyone today has their own version of what happened. Everyone is their own interrogator and investigator. Therefore, I specially posted the source files of my photographs - a large volume, so that those who wish could study the details that interest them on their own.

Kindly request: if anyone wants to use these photos in their own publications, please provide a link to the author. At the same time, I understand that I did this work so that we someday know the truth. Therefore, anyone, provided the author is indicated, can use these images completely free of charge for any purpose.

Additionally: article about the murder of Boris Nemtsov “Putin does not rule Russia”

Politician Boris Nemtsov was killed in the center of Moscow on the night of February 28, 2015. After 11 months, the Investigative Committee announced the end of the investigation to those involved in the case. On June 29, 2017, the jury delivered its verdict. All five accused were found guilty: Zaur Dadaev, Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, Khamzat Bakhaev. On July 13, 2017, the Moscow Regional Military Court, based on the jury’s verdict, sentenced the accused.

How the murder happened

• Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in Moscow on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. According to preliminary data, he was shot several times from a passing car.
• Six 9mm cartridges were found at the murder scene. The shooting was allegedly carried out from a Makarov pistol.
• The politician was accompanied by Ukrainian fashion model Anna Duritskaya. She was not injured. On March 2, 2015, Duritskaya said that the killer was behind her and he shot in the back. When Nemtsov fell, she ran to the driver of the snowplow for help and called the police.

How did the investigation go?

• The Investigative Committee opened a case under the articles “Murder” and “Illegal Trafficking in Weapons.” The crime was reported to President Vladimir Putin, who instructed the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB to keep the investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov under personal control.
• The investigation examined at least five possible versions of the murder. Among them are a provocation to destabilize the political situation in the country, as well as commercial activities, personal hostility, events in Ukraine and even an Islamic extremist trace.
• On March 4, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the investigation had suspects. A few days later, five people were detained in Ingushetia, Chechnya and the Moscow region: brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Zaur Dadaev, Khamzat Bakhaev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov. Another alleged accomplice in the crime, Beslan Shavanov, committed a suicide bombing during an attempt to detain him in Grozny.
• On March 8, the suspects were taken into custody. On the same day, Dadaev, whom investigators consider to be the direct killer of the politician, and Anzor Gubashev were charged. According to the judge, Dadaev admitted involvement in the murder. He asked for a fair trial. Two days later it became known that Dadaev refused to confess.
• On March 10, Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Eva Merkacheva, who as a member of the Public Monitoring Committee visited Lefortovo, wrote in an article that those arrested reported being beaten by security forces. The head of the HRC commission, Andrei Babushkin, met with the arrested, who believed that torture could have been used against them, and appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee with a request to verify this information. The Investigative Committee warned against interference in the investigation and promised to give a legal assessment of the actions of Merkacheva and Babushkin. Later Babushkin was interrogated and thus became a witness. In accordance with the law, he lost the opportunity to visit the pre-trial detention center where the defendants were kept. On March 11, the head of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee, member of the Public Chamber, Anton Tsvetkov, and three of his colleagues visited Lefortovo. The commission of human rights defenders found no traces of torture.
• On March 16, charges were brought against Khamzat Bakhaev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Shadid Gubashev. They did not admit their guilt. All defendants were charged with Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy for mercenary reasons or for hire”) and Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons”).
• In April, it became known that the investigation was considering “murder for hire” as the main version of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov.
• According to the Kommersant newspaper, during the investigation Dadaev named the name of the person who ordered the murder: former fighter of the Sever battalion Ruslan Mukhudinov, who provided weapons and a car and promised 25 million rubles for Nemtsov’s liquidation. Later, Dadaev refused this testimony.
• In June 2015, during interrogation, Dadaev stated that he had an alibi: on the day of the murder, he was in the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye area and did not go to the city center. In his first testimony, given on March 7, he allegedly “was forced under torture to incriminate himself and others.” On August 27, a Moscow court rejected Dadaev’s complaint about the use of torture against him.
• On November 9, the lawyer of Nemtsov’s daughter Zhanna reported that the investigation had brought charges in absentia of organizing the murder against Ruslan Mukhudinov. On November 6, a decision was made to put Mukhudinov on the federal wanted list, on November 16 he was put on the international wanted list, and on November 18 he was arrested in absentia. On December 29, the Investigative Committee confirmed that it considers Mukhudinov to be the organizer and customer of the crime.
• The criminal case against the alleged customer and organizer of the murder of Ruslan Mukhudinov and other unidentified persons has been separated into separate proceedings. The investigation into it continues.
• On January 29, 2016, the Investigative Committee announced to those involved in the case that the investigation had been completed. Department representative Vladimir Markin then said that the involvement of all the accused was confirmed by the conclusions of more than 70 complex forensic examinations, interrogations of witnesses, confrontations, inspections of objects and documents seized during searches at the places of residence of the accused, and reports of inspections of recordings from CCTV cameras, including installed at the murder scenes. The accused and their defense attorneys began to familiarize themselves with the case materials.

Why was Nemtsov killed?

• According to the Investigative Committee, initially Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev stated that they killed Nemtsov for reasons of religious hatred, since he spoke approvingly of the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. But investigators came to the conclusion that the group members began preparing for the murder back in September 2014, and this “completely excludes the motive they indicated for the murder on the basis of religious hatred,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement. As a result, the investigation and the court concluded that Nemtsov was killed for mercenary reasons - for a reward of at least 15 million rubles.

How did the trial go?

• The consideration of the case began in July 2016. The court granted the defendants' request to have the case heard by a jury.
• The jury was supposed to deliver its verdict on June 27, 2017, but they were unable to reach a consensus on the guilt of the defendants, as required by law. The verdict was delayed several times. On June 29, a jury found all the accused guilty: Zaur Dadaev, Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, Khamzat Bakhaev. None of them, according to the jury, deserve leniency.
• The verdict of all defendants based on the jury verdict was handed down on July 13.

Who was involved in the case and what sentences did they receive?

• Zaur Dadaev. The main accused. For about ten years he served in the "North" battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic. In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Courage. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram that he knew Dadaev “as a true patriot of Russia” who killed several dangerous terrorists. Sentenced to 20 years in prison with a fine of 100 thousand rubles. Stripped by the court of the rank of lieutenant and the Order of Courage.
• Brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev. Shadid Gubashev is a native of Ingushetia, registered in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. He received 16 years in a maximum security colony with a fine of 100 thousand rubles. Anzor Gubashev was born in the Rostov region, registered in Ingushetia, and has 9 years of education. He has no wife, children, or permanent job. Sentenced to 19 years with a fine of 100 thousand rubles.
• Khamzat Bakhaev. He was born in Ingushetia, registered in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. Bakhaev stated that “I learned about Nemtsov’s murder from the media when I was at home.” He also noted that he has six children. He received 11 years in prison with a fine of 100 thousand rubles.
• Tamerlan Eskerkhanov. Eskerkhanov is a native of Chechnya, registered in Moscow, a former police officer. Sentenced to 14 years with a fine of 100 thousand rubles. Stripped by the court of the special rank of warrant officer.
• Ruslan Mukhudinov. The alleged organizer of the murder, a former officer of the North battalion. The case against him has been separated into separate proceedings.

Appeal possible

• The parties were dissatisfied with the verdict. “I don’t understand why I was convicted,” said Shadid Gubashev, answering the judge’s question. “God is your judge,” Eskerkhanov said in turn. The defense of the convicts intends to appeal the court verdict. Representatives of Boris Nemtsov’s family believe that the organizers and those who ordered the murder should receive more severe punishment. The state prosecution requested a more severe punishment for the defendants and will express its attitude to the imposed punishment after studying the verdict.

The investigation and the authorities immediately called the murder of the famous politician a contract killing, but there were so many versions about the motives of the crime that it has still not been possible to choose a priority one. The only thing the participants in the investigation are sure of is that the perpetrators of the crime were not professionals in their field. In any case, they used far from reliable weapons and ammunition that were more than 20 years old, and besides, they left the main witness of the incident alive.

"The Most Significant Crime"

According to Kommersant, the murder of Boris Nemtsov was registered by the capital police as “the most significant crime” committed in Moscow on February 27. That day at 23:35, as follows from the police report, the “02” service received several messages from citizens “about a gunshot wound” on the Moskvoretsky Bridge. The first police squad arrived at the scene ten minutes later and found the body of Boris Nemtsov on the bridge, whose death, as stated in the document, occurred no more than half an hour ago.

Eyewitnesses to the incident were Mr. Nemtsov’s friend, fashion model Anna Duritskaya, and several passers-by. True, their stories yielded little to the investigation. According to Mrs. Duritskaya, sources told Kommersant, that day they met with Mr. Nemtsov at the Bosco Cafe in GUM, and after having dinner and a short walk around Red Square, they went on foot to the politician, who lived in house N3 on Malaya Ordynka Street.

The couple had not walked hundreds of meters along the Moskvoretsky Bridge when a man approached them and shot Mr. Nemtsov in the back with a pistol. The killer was picked up from the scene of the murder by a white car, in which he sat in the front passenger seat.

["Izvestia", 03/02/2015, "In the Nemtsov murder case, investigators are counting on an identikit": The main witnesses in the Nemtsov murder case so far are his girlfriend Anna Duritskaya and the young man who followed them. However, the girl was in shock, so she says she doesn’t remember anything.
Victor M. saw the killer from afar, but managed to remember something. According to him, it was a man 170–175 cm tall, of normal build, dark hair, short haircut. He was wearing jeans and a brown sweater. […]
The driver of the harvesting truck, Sergei B., who was driving along the bridge at the time of the murder, could not tell the investigators much. He did not see the killer and realized what happened only when Anna Duritskaya turned to him.
According to Sergei, he was finishing processing the curbs and when he looked up, he noticed a man lying on the asphalt in the rearview mirror. When Sergei turned off the turbine and got out of the car, a girl ran up to him.
“I asked what was wrong with the man and how he was feeling, and she said that he had been shot and asked what to do, who to call,” said Sergei. Having called an ambulance, he left the scene. - Insert K.ru]

In hot pursuit, the police did not find the car with the killer and his accomplice. The fact is that the witness Duritskaya, shocked by the incident, could not even clearly name the make of the car. And the recordings from the surveillance cameras installed in the area turned out to be either not very clear or completely absent, since they were turned off during repair work. By the way, a couple of Ford cars, a Kia Rio and a white VAZ-2110 were put on the wanted list. All these cars were discovered by detectives, but it turned out that their owners had nothing to do with what happened. On Saturday, operatives became interested in another car - a Lada Priora, registered in Ingushetia - it was found near the Smolenskaya metro station. The Lada was used by two residents of the republic, who, however, also had nothing to do with it. Yesterday, on exits from Moscow, traffic police officers, reinforced with special forces, stopped and checked mainly red sedans.

The very moment of the crime was filmed, albeit from a distance, by a camera from the TVC channel, the recordings of which are used in news releases. According to it, the murder on the bridge occurred at 23:31.

["TVC", 02/28/2015, "A round-the-clock camera recorded the murder of Nemtsov. Video": Video from an all-weather camera filming the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge around the clock. A crime was recorded on it down to the second. The quality of the shooting is low, but cars and silhouettes of people are visible. An ordinary Moscow evening. There are still many cars and passers-by on the bridge. 23.30 - these two, presumably Boris Nemtsov and his companion, are walking towards Bolotnaya Square. Slowly the snowplow is catching up with them. At 11:31 p.m., the back of the truck hides them from the camera. A second later, another person runs out onto the roadway, quickly gets into the car and drives away. The snowplow stops a few meters from the scene. There remains only one silhouette - presumably Nemtsov’s companion. She then approaches the drivers. And he spends several minutes behind the snowplow. Pedestrians still walk across the bridge. Some pass by as if nothing had happened, others, interested, stop. One person, having examined the place of Nemtsov’s death, runs up to the snowplow, near which the girl is located. Then he returns to the body of the deceased. At 23.35 the first car stops here and leaves a few seconds later. The girl returns to the crime scene. Two more come up. At 23.37 another car flies past. He brakes sharply and comes back. For some time he stands in front of the scene of action. Two people suddenly run under the bridge. A third car arrives and then both cars drive away. The girl is left alone. Another person passes by. At 23.42 the police arrive at the crime scene. Two people appear from under the bridge - presumably the ones who ran away - the question is, why?
Experts assure that this was not the best place for a murder. At least professional killers prefer not to work in crowded places. Although the action itself looks planned. This is also stated by investigators who have partially reconstructed the picture of what happened. - Insert K.ru]

Based on what was seen, it can be assumed that the killer was apparently waiting for his victim on the side stairs leading to the bridge, from where, most likely on a signal from his accomplices, he quickly climbed onto the pedestrian path and opened fire on Mr. Nemtsov.

Old cartridges are back in business

Experts established that Mr. Nemtsov was hit by four of the six bullets fired by the killer. One wound - in the heart - turned out to be fatal. The criminal did not throw the gun on the spot, and the cartridges he left behind raised only questions from experts and investigators. All the cartridges used by the killer turned out to be 9 mm caliber, but produced at different times and by different companies. According to Kommersant, four cartridges, judging by the markings, were produced by the Yuryuzan Mechanical Plant (Chelyabinsk Region) in 1986, and two more by the Tula Cartridge Plant in 1992. Note that the shelf life of live ammunition is practically unlimited if certain conditions for their storage are met, which are quite difficult to ensure in the shadow circulation of ammunition.

On the other hand, according to experts, the presence of cartridges from different manufacturers and years of manufacture in the clip may indicate that they were, as Kommersant’s interlocutor from law enforcement agencies put it, “collected from all pockets.” That is, the attackers had very limited access to ammunition, usually supplied in packs of 50 rounds each or in boxes of 1,000. In addition, they try to use up old ammunition at shooting ranges, issuing relatively new ones for combat operations or for official needs.

At the same time, according to preliminary data, a Makarov pistol could have been used to kill Mr. Nemtsov or, as in the case of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya, gas "Izh", converted to fire live ammunition. The latter weapon is, of course, easier to obtain, but, according to experts, it is very unreliable when used. Participants in the investigation believe that the killer most likely immediately got rid of the barrel by throwing it into the Moscow River.

Taking into account the method of murder, the weapon, the characteristics of the ammunition and other circumstances, Kommersant's interlocutors from law enforcement agencies are inclined to believe that the crime was most likely committed by non-professionals, who may not even know who exactly their target was.

Let us note that detectives have already found many similarities between the murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Boris Nemtsov. In any case, they say, it is already obvious that Mr. Nemtsov, like Ms. Politkovskaya, was killed on certain dates: the opposition march scheduled for March 1, and the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 7, 2006, respectively.

In addition, participants in the investigation note that Mr. Nemtsov, just like Ms. Politkovskaya at one time, was followed for a long time until they found themselves in places suitable for attack. In the case of politician Nemtsov, it is possible that the customer’s condition was precisely a murder committed with a view of the Kremlin.

True, the investigation classified the crime differently. If the murder of Mrs. Politkovskaya, according to the investigation, was the murder of a person in connection with the performance of his official activities, organized for hire (clause "b", clause "g" and clause "z" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) , then in the case that is now being investigated by the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in connection with the shooting on the Moskvoretsky Bridge, there was no official or public activity at all, but the investigation immediately recognized its ordered nature. President Vladimir Putin spoke in the same sense, noting that “this brutal murder has all the signs of a contract killing and is exclusively provocative in nature.”

Ukrainian trace

Official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin also said that the murder could have been committed for provocative purposes to destabilize the political situation in the country. At the same time, he noted, the figure of Mr. Nemtsov could become “a kind of sacred sacrifice for those who do not disdain any methods to achieve their political goals.”

According to Kommersant, the operational services are actively discussing a version linking the murder of Boris Nemtsov with the so-called Ukrainian trace. “The version related to internal Ukrainian events is really being verified,” Mr. Markin noted, since, according to him, “among both conflicting parties there are very radical characters who do not obey any authorities.”

According to this version, the oppositionist Nemtsov, who actively supports the actions of the Ukrainian authorities, could, for example, be dealt with by former militia members who returned from eastern Ukraine to Russia. The incident that occurred in October last year in the Moscow region, when drunken militias shot a traffic police crew, just indicates that some of them, in principle, do not care who they shoot at. On the other hand, the former head of government of the self-proclaimed DPR, Alexander Borodai, told Kommersant that he considers this version “nonsense and stupidity.” According to him, “there was no point in the patriots killing Mr. Nemtsov, who was a political figure in the 90s, and not now.”

The leader of the nationalist association "Russians" adheres to the same version. Dmitry Demushkin, who declared that nationalists were not involved in the death of Mr. Nemtsov. Let us note that Mr. Nemtsov, unlike other well-known politicians, lawyers and journalists, was not on the famous “hit lists” of the militant organization of Russian nationalists (BORN), the trial of which is now being completed in the Moscow Regional Court. However, Alexey Pershin, a lawyer for BORN member Nikita Tikhonov, sentenced to life, told Kommersant that Mr. Nemtsov, as a political figure, was simply not interesting to nationalists. On the other hand, he did not rule out that radical followers of BORN could still have something to do with what happened, since some of them are now fighting in the Donbass and perceive Mr. Nemtsov in a completely different way - as a person who openly supported their enemies.

["RBC Newspaper", 03/02/2015, "Main version": The version of the involvement of nationalists is becoming a priority in the investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov, RBC sources in law enforcement assure. Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases under the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Major General of Justice Igor Krasnov, was appointed head of the investigation team. Currently, 12 investigators work under his leadership. They are studying recordings from CCTV cameras, mobile phone billings, travel routes and Nemtsov’s contacts over the past month.
Investigator Krasnov is known for investigating high-profile cases involving nationalists. In 2005, he prosecuted the case against nationalist Ivan Mironov, who was accused of assassination attempt on the head of RAO UES Anatoly Chubais together with retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov. […]
The Investigative Committee could neither confirm nor deny RBC's information about the transfer of the case to investigator Krasnov, but confirmed that the case had been transferred to the central office of the department. Initially, the investigation team was headed by acting. Alexander Drymanov, head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. Previously, he was known for investigating criminal cases of war crimes in the south-east of Ukraine and South Ossetia, as well as case of illegal telephone wiretapping against FSKN General Alexander Bulbov.
The investigator’s version of the involvement of nationalists in Nemtsov’s murder is also supported by lawyer, former investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Zherebenkov, who represented the interests of the relatives of the victims Markelov and Baburova. According to him, the murder of an opposition political figure for the purpose of destabilization coincides with the program text “Strategy 2020” distributed by BORN members among radical nationalists. - Insert K.ru]

If we follow the version of provocation, then, according to the operational services, it is impossible to exclude the involvement of other nationalists in the murder in the center of Moscow - militants from the Right Sector banned in Russia and volunteer detachments acting on the side of the Ukrainian authorities. [...]

Islamic trace

According to the representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, the investigation is also carefully pursuing a version associated with an Islamic extremist trace. The fact is, Mr. Markin noted, that the investigation has information that Mr. Nemtsov received threats in connection with his position regarding the shooting of employees of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. The threats came from opponents of the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. “When the Council of Muftis of Russia calls the activities of journalists of a publication a provocation and a sin, it justifies terrorists,” Mr. Nemtsov wrote, in particular, in his blog, arguing that “now we are witnesses of the medieval Islamic Inquisition. Centuries will pass, and Islam will mature, and terrorism will become a thing of the past. But sitting and doing nothing is also not worth it.”

In connection with these threats that the politician received on social networks, as Mr. Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said, they contacted law enforcement agencies, but, according to him, there was no reaction to this. A reverse reaction could well have followed the rally in Grozny, where more than 800 thousand opponents of cartoons of the prophet gathered at the end of January, especially since the organizer of the event was the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has been criticized more than once by Mr. Nemtsov.

It should be recalled that so-called gas and traumatic weapons were actively used in the Russian Federation both by radical Islamists and, for example, by those who took revenge for publications criticizing North Caucasian leaders. Let us recall that Anna Politkovskaya was killed with such a weapon, and members of the GTA gang liquidated last fall, who recruited militants for the Islamic State, committed a whole series of murders on the roads near Moscow using converted guns for training purposes.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in turn, said that the murder of Mr. Nemtsov was organized by “Western intelligence services seeking to cause an internal conflict in Russia by any means.” According to Mr. Kadyrov, opposition leader Nemtsov “did not like everything that was being done for the revival and development of Chechnya.” “I took this very calmly and was not even interested in his statements. Listening to him, I remembered Salman Raduev, who took upon himself everything that was happening in the world and commented on everything,” the Chechen leader noted.

Anna Duritskaya's testimony was checked for 7.5 hours

Finally, the investigation, according to Mr. Markin, in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov is going to check all possible conflicts related to his parliamentary activities, business, and the everyday version.

Perhaps the loudest conflict between Mr. Nemtsov, who became a deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma in 2013, occurred with the vice-governor of the region, Alexander Senin. Having contacted the prosecutor's office, the deputy claimed that the wife of the deputy governor heads Yartek Medical LLC, which, in turn, provides government services to the regional health department, supervised by Mr. Senin. Thanks to this, Mr. Nemtsov believed, the LLC received 150 government contracts. The prosecutor's office, however, established that within the framework of the contracts, the LLC supplied not the medicines that the deputy wrote about, but consumables for hospitals. The deputy governor did not take part in the procurement commission; therefore, the inspectors decided that there could be no conflict of interest here. As a result, prosecutors did not take any measures against the official. Nevertheless, Mr. Nemtsov managed to ensure that the deputies adopted a special appeal regarding suspicious contracts to the governor, by whose decision Mr. Senin was removed from office. When leaving, he promised to sue Mr. Nemtsov, but in the databases of Yaroslavl courts nothing is reported about the decision on this claim.

The investigation does not yet know anything about any business conflicts involving Mr. Nemtsov. There is, however, an old story about debt collection from the former head of Rosvooruzhenie, Major General Alexandra Kotelkina. Back in 2010, the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow, having satisfied Mr. Nemtsov’s claim against the general, decided to recover $700 thousand in ruble equivalent from the latter, as well as interest on debt. A well-known politician and oppositionist once gave this money to the general for business development. Alexander Kotelkin promised to return them in a year, but did not keep his word. However, in the end, Boris Nemtsov assigned the right to claim the debt to third parties under an assignment agreement. And they, in turn, stopped enforcement proceedings for some reason.

As for possible everyday problems, Anna Duritskaya, with whose participation yesterday operational and investigative actions continued for more than 7.5 hours, can obviously know about them. In particular, the girl was taken to the scene of the crime so that she could show exactly how the killer acted. Just in case, the investigation took the girl under state protection, which, according to the defense, she refused, but nevertheless continues to be under the supervision of operatives who guard her apartment. Mrs. Duritskaya herself asks to quickly let her go to her parents in Kyiv.

[IA “Rosbalt”, 03/01/2015, “The mother of Nemtsov’s friend relayed her story about the murder”: Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was shot in the back, said the mother of his companion, model Anna Duritskaya Inna Mikhailovna after a conversation with her daughter.
“She was waiting for him in the restaurant, they had dinner and were getting ready to go home. On the street, Anya offered to call a taxi, but Boris refused and wanted to take a walk. When they walked (across the bridge), Anya held his hand and heard clapping. Boris went limp and fell. Anya was very scared, started calling the police and immediately called me...
She said on the phone: Mom, Boris was killed!.. He was shot in the back, he fell and is lying next to him,” Inna Duritskaya told the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
According to her, her daughter stayed in touch with her all night. “The next time she called and said that she was already in the car and giving her testimony. And the whole night, until 5 in the morning, they drove her to different areas where they took her testimony,” said the girl’s mother. - Insert K.ru]

Boris Nemtsov and Anna Duritskaya (right)

[LifeNews.Ru, 02.28.2015, “Boris Nemtsov called model Anya Duritskaya Bounty”: Politician Boris Nemtsov and Ukrainian fashion model Anna Duritskaya met back in 2011. A student at the Kyiv National Economic University instantly fell in love with an experienced adult man.
Her parents did not approve of her daughter's relationship with a man twice her age, but Anya continued to communicate with Boris. The oppositionist even gave an affectionate nickname to his young passion - Bounty. The second name immediately caught on, and everyone she knew started calling the girl that.
The lovers were accustomed to living in two cities and two countries: for some time in Anna’s Kyiv apartment, then in Moscow, where they stayed in Boris’s apartment in the very center.
At the end of December 2013, Anna found out that she was pregnant. After consulting with her lover, Duritskaya made a decision and at the beginning of January 2014 she left for Switzerland, where in an elite private clinic in Zurich she underwent an operation to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. All expenses were then covered by Boris Nemtsov - 2200 francs, including all additional services.
Anna's friend Yulia spoke about her affair with a famous oppositionist.
“They met three years ago, and their feelings for each other immediately flared up. They began living together almost immediately. Only due to different circumstances they lived in two cities - in Moscow and Kyiv,” the girl shared.
Yulia noted that 55-year-old Boris Nemtsov spoiled his 23-year-old girlfriend with expensive gifts, gave her perfume and jewelry. - Insert K.ru]

[LifeNews.Ru, 03/02/2015, “Investigators have restored Nemtsov’s route on the day of the murder”: Law enforcement officials investigating the murder of Boris Nemtsov managed not only to restore the route of the famous politician from GUM to the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, but also to draw in sufficient detail a picture of the last day of his life.
As a source told LifeNews, at about half past ten on the morning of February 27, Boris Nemtsov met his 23-year-old girlfriend Anna Duritskaya at Sheremetyevo Airport. From there they went in the politician’s Range Rover to his apartment in the center of the capital.
The couple left the house only at the beginning of eight in the evening: Nemtsov went to an interview, and Duritskaya went on foot to the spa on Pyatnitskaya Street. After everyone finished their business, the lovers met again - in GUM, in the Bosco cafe. After dinner, Boris and Anna left the car with the driver, and, despite the drizzling rain, they decided to walk to the apartment on Malaya Ordynka. - Insert K.ru]

The Investigative Committee announced yesterday that it is looking for new witnesses to the murder of Mr. Nemtsov, to whom the Ministry of Internal Affairs is even ready to pay 3 million rubles for especially valuable information.

[Slon.Ru, 03/02/2015, “The FSO disowned monitoring the scene of Nemtsov’s murder”: The cameras of the Federal Security Service did not record the moment of the murder of oppositionist Boris Nemtsov. Official representative of the department Sergei Devyatov told RIA Novosti about this.
“Video cameras are aimed at the Kremlin and provide an overview of the internal territory. The Moskvoretsky Bridge is not the area of ​​responsibility of the Federal Security Service. There are no FSO cameras there,” he added.
Devyatov noticed that on the night when the murder was committed, all FSO cameras were working as usual. Earlier, the Moscow mayor's office announced that there were no malfunctions in the city's video surveillance system. The metropolitan government added that cameras in the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin are controlled by federal authorities, but did not specify whether city systems provide surveillance of the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, where Nemtsov was killed.
Photographer Dmitry Aleshkovsky noted on his Facebook that there are cameras on the Beklemishevskaya Tower of the Kremlin, one of which was aimed “exactly at the scene of the murder” on the night of the crime.
At the same time, in an interview with TASS, a representative of the Department of Information Technology said that the recordings of city cameras were transferred to investigators, without specifying how many of them recorded the crime. The cameras, he said, were in good working order and provided high-quality images. - Insert K.ru]

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© "Novaya Gazeta", 03/01/2015

Who bullied and threatened

September 2007. During the presentation of the book “Confession of a Rebel,” young people in bathrobes began throwing books at Nemtsov.

November 2007. In Krasnoyarsk, at a meeting with voters, a “nashi” poured liquid chocolate on Nemtsov, who at that time headed the SPS election list for the State Duma elections.

March 2009. At the entrance to the Sochi election headquarters, young people threw ammonia in the face of the mayoral candidate Nemtsov.

July 2012. Young activists of the Seliger forum presented the installation “You are not welcome here” - on 14 poles dug into the ground, they pasted images of the faces of oppositionists, among whom was Nemtsov.

September 2010. During the presentation of the report “Putin. Results. 10 years,” two girls and a young man tried to put fish nets on Nemtsov’s head.

November 2010. At Sheremetyevo airport, an unknown young man ran up to Nemtsov (who had returned from the USA, where he spoke at Congress) and threw a net over his head.

January 2011. At the exit from the cafe where Nemtsov was meeting with his children, three guys tried to throw a net over his head.

May 2011. According to the Seliger rules, to participate in the summer camp it was necessary to write an essay on the topic of Nemtsov being “under the direct leadership of the Washington regional committee.”

June 2011. Unknown attackers seriously damaged Nemtsov's car by throwing a toilet on it. According to the politician, the car was under surveillance. Nemtsov’s driver repeatedly found “beacons” attached to the bottom of the car.

July 2011. An installation depicting opposition leaders was presented at the Seliger camp. The goal of the promotion is to choose the “Loser of the Year.” Among the contenders for this title was Nemtsov (in the first work he was depicted against the backdrop of the White House building, in the second - behind barbed wire).

August 2011. During the campaign against the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, pro-Kremlin activists threw eggs and stones at Nemtsov and his associates.

September 2013. At a rally on the Volzhskaya embankment in Yaroslavl in support of ex-mayor Yevgeny Urlashov, unknown people threw eggs at Nemtsov.

May 2014. “Moscow Students” hung a poster with portraits of oppositionists (including Nemtsov) on the facade of the Book House store on Novy Arbat. The inscription on the poster read: “Fifth Column! Strangers are among us! They support the junta in Ukraine!”

January 2015. On one of the buildings on Novy Arbat, the art group Glavplakat hung a poster depicting the “fifth column” (including Nemtsov), who allegedly “insisted on sanctions against their country.” Next to the portraits were images of a character from the action movie “Alien” and a large inscription: “By supporting sanctions, they are achieving a fall in income and a rise in prices.”

February 2015. At the Anti-Maidan rally, participants carried a poster with a picture of Nemtsov and the caption “Organizer of the Maidan.”

Prepared by Diana Khachatryan

Real threat

Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who represented the interests of Boris Nemtsov for several years, during a short break between investigative actions that lasted all day on February 28, told Novaya that several months before the murder his client received a specific death threat, but law enforcement officers dealt with it didn't.

Boris has been subjected to various types of attacks regularly since 2009, back in Sochi, where he took part in the mayoral elections: they threw various heavy objects at his car, threw eggs, threw mud and ammonia at him, threw stones at him, etc. and so on. There was a lot of all this. As for the threats specifically, the most serious one came against him in the summer-autumn of last year from one account on social networks. They threatened him for his position on Ukraine. They wrote something to him like: “I’ll kill you.” Then this account was quickly deleted. Usually Boris never abused attention to his person, did not react to attacks and in general, as you already understood, neglected security. But this time he really got tense, we took a screenshot of the account and wrote a statement about the threat received to the Moscow prosecutor’s office.

That is, at least the Moscow prosecutor's office was aware that he was threatened with murder?

Yes. But, unfortunately, she did not react. She shuffled and shuffled the application, passed it on somewhere and in the end for some reason sent it to the Yaroslavl region (where Nemtsov was a deputy. - V. Ch.). Where everything died down. For some reason they didn’t do any preventive measures - to find and identify those who threatened and make sure that they were no longer allowed to do anything - then for some reason they let everything go.

But in fairness, I will say: from my point of view, it is unlikely that real murderers will first threaten their victims on social networks. Professional killers don't shine. The search for those who committed the murder needs to be broader, which I hope the investigation will do. The question is that, in general, a situation has been created where widespread hysteria against the opposition turned into such a tragedy.

Vera Chelishcheva

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© v_milov, 02/28/2015

Murder: versions

I talked here with my acquaintances, former intelligence officers, and there is less and less doubt that the authorities are behind the murder of Boris Nemtsov. I understand all the reasoning about “Putin couldn’t”, “it’s not beneficial for him” and so on.

However, there are objective circumstances:

The killers left a direct witness alive and untouched.

The murder took place in a widely watched and wiretapped area, where all records of vehicle movements, etc., were probably preserved.

Judging by the available information, Nemtsov was in one of the cafes in GUM before the murder. No one could know when he would finish sitting there and where he would go then. This means that the tip either came from his wiretapping, or the car must have been grazing in the Ilyinka/Varvarka area, which again is a heavily monitored and bugged territory - this is the domain of the presidential administration and the FSO. Those. if these are some people outside the authorities, then now the authorities have in their hands a complete breakdown of the movements of these freaks in the Ilyinka/Varvarka area at the moment when Nemtsov was sitting in GUM and then leaving there. The killers - and judging by the precise shots that hit the heart, lung, head, etc., these were highly professional killers - could not help but understand this.

Those. it was obvious to the professionals that in this way they were exposed so much that they either deliberately acted so impudently (which is extremely difficult to believe) or were confident in their impunity.

But all these are “flowers” ​​in comparison with the main consideration, which outweighs all others:

Less than 48 hours before the largest opposition rally, over which the authorities were very tense, Nemtsov could very likely be under surveillance. There might not have been any surveillance, but the killers were so professional that they simply had to assume the prevailing probability of being targeted in this situation. Given any motive for the murder that did not come from the authorities, it would have been easier to postpone it to a later and calmer period.

Since no one was afraid of anything and acted brazenly, only one conclusion suggests itself.

I already wrote about the motive yesterday - to sow fear.

These are just facts. You can keep your speculative reasoning about what is “beneficial” or “disadvantageous” for someone.

Our observer tried to figure out what role Anna Duritskaya played in the murder of an opposition politician [video]

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Why was the Kyiv model not injured during the assassination attempt? How could the main witness in such a high-profile crime be released from the country? These questions plague both us, journalists, and ordinary people today. After all, only the leaders of the opposition understand everything – Nemtsov was killed by the bloody Regime. But if he’s so bloody, why didn’t he kill the rebel’s mistress at the same time? Showed humanity unusual for him? Showed a human face? Or did you save ammunition during the crisis? Questions, questions...

ANNUSHKA SPILLED OIL

Already in the first hours, many had suspicions about the role of Nemtsov’s Ukrainian companion in the tragedy on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on February 27. I just flew to him from Kyiv this morning. We talked. Then she went to the spa, he went on protest business. Raise Echo of Moscow listeners to the March. At night, the couple in love dined at Bosco on Red Square. Then a romantic walk to a love nest (let's call a spade a spade!) In the middle of the bridge they were overtaken by the killer. 4 bullets in Nemtsov. And there's not a scratch on the girl. Strange, very strange. Was it really she who brought the leader of the protest under bullets at the walls of the Kremlin? A fool understands: if it weren’t for Duritskaya on that fateful night, Nemtsov would not have gotten onto the bridge.

Theoretically, it could lead the oppositionist “to the right place at the right time,” the famous economist Mikhail Delyagin hinted politically correctly on Twitter that night. He was supported by political scientist Vitaly Tretyakov: “The girl was most likely used in the dark. I just had to take you on a walking tour through Moscow at night to that place...”

It turns out that she is a tipper, an accomplice of the murderers? A discussion has flared up on the Internet about what title 23-year-old Anna Duritskaya has. They agreed on a lieutenant of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine). She, for a moment, appeared from Square to White Stone, without getting dusty. The people decided that upon returning to their homeland the girl would become a captain, or even a major.

Reflections of amateurs!

The father-commanders of SBU lieutenant (FSB, CIA, MOSSAD and further on the list) Anna-Ganna were aware that a living witness to a high-profile political murder would inevitably fall into the hands of the investigation. That's what happened. And there she will be gutted with “truth serum”, a lie detector, hypnosis, beatings and other means from the rich arsenals of the special services. The lieutenant, like a nice little guy, will hand over his native department. A scandal for the whole world. So the lieutenant gunner inevitably had to be eliminated along with Nemtsov. As a veteran of the authorities explained to me, “they don’t leave anyone alive after such actions - their colleagues will clean them up!” The law of the intelligence services of the world.

But she survived. So, not a lieutenant?

CAUCASIAN TRAIL

It was voiced online by a famous economist, citing a reliable source. They say there was a verbal altercation at Bosco that night. Hot Caucasian guys threw something obscene at the “beautiful chick.” We ran into Nemtsov’s “greyhound”. Either on the street they followed him to the bridge to teach him a lesson. Or they saw, driving past on the bridge: “Mage, slow down, that impudent one is coming with a woman!” The “collective farmers” didn’t even think about surveillance cameras, and they had no idea who this “greyhound” really was. Scumbags, what can you take... The economist recalled the dashing “dags” who lawlessly attacked State Duma deputy Roman Khudyakov in the capital a couple of years ago. The deputy, fortunately, remained alive, and the “Dags” were caught in hot pursuit near Volgograd. This time the quarrel turned into tragedy.

The KP journalist tried to find out from the Bosco staff about the altercation. The staff did not confirm. But this does not mean at all that there was no quarrel. The scandal is a blow to the prestige of the establishment; one must remain silent. Or the staff signed a non-disclosure agreement. It’s clear that the authorities arrived at Bosco before the press.

The version about a possible extremist-Islamist trace was officially voiced by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Nemtsov seemed to have been threatened in the Charlie case. There were rumors that he was removed by soldiers of the “peacekeeping battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev,” fighting in the Donbass on the side of Kyiv. They also name a specific customer - Adam Osmayev, who once prepared an assassination attempt on Putin. Indirectly, the Caucasian version seems to be confirmed by the white car that sped away from the crime scene. This, they say, is the favorite color of the car of the “children of the mountains.”

What does Duritskaya have to do with this? “The Chechens rarely kill female witnesses, they are disgusted with it,” another veteran investigator who worked a lot “on the ground” told me, including in the Caucasus.

BUSINESS. NOTHING PERSONAL!

Former fighters against organized crime and economic crimes, whose management in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was so unexpectedly and lightning quickly disbanded by the former President of the Russian Federation, draw attention to this aspect of the deceased’s activities. Just don’t need liberal mantras that Nemtsov is a holy politician, avoided commerce, and all hints about being a victim of business squabbles are the machinations of the bloody regime, slander.

Check out Wikipedia before his biography is cleared (it happens!)

“In 2004-2005, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the Neftyanoy concern, whose president was Igor Linshits. According to the prosecutor's office, a criminal group operated in the bank, which was part of the concern, which, by carrying out illegal banking transactions, received “criminal income in the amount of 57 billion rubles.” After the start of the inspections, Nemtsov left the concern, saying that he wanted to “eliminate any political risks in the business” of his friend Linshits. The case of theft at Neftyanoy Bank was closed in 2010.”

It turned out that even the all-knowing Wikipedia does not know everything about the business of the deceased. I inadvertently remembered how I once deliberately dropped into an American chicken restaurant near the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station. There were just rumors that Yeltsin’s former successor had become its owner. I forgot the name due to years ago. Now I typed “Nemtsov, restaurant business” into the search engine, and everything fell out. In March 2004, Boris Efimovich joined the board of directors of Rostik Group, and at the same time became an adviser on strategic development to the head and main shareholder of the corporation, Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco. At that time, it included the holding company "Rostik Restaurants" (chains of fast food restaurants "Rostik"s, "American Bar and Grill", "T.J.I. Fridays", "Planet Sushi", "Patio Pizza", cafe "Santa Fe" and "Cafe de Artist" are familiar brands!), photo stores "Focus" (about 400 in Russia and the CIS countries), advertising agency "MVT Eurasia", travel agency "Carlson Tourism" As stated by Blanco, Nemtsov has. “excellent strategic thinking, knowledge of the mentality of the regions, extensive experience in communicating with authorities.” His appointment will help the company “actively develop and increase its share in the restaurant market.”

Surely there was another business that even Wikipedia doesn’t know about.

When a politician ran for mayor of Sochi, the election commission (according to the law) published information about the candidate. Nemtsov’s total income for 2008 amounted to 183.4 million rubles; in bank accounts - 93.2 million rubles. Despite the fact that the candidate himself said back in the fall of 2008 that he had lost a lot due to the crisis.

I want to emphasize: there is no crime in the commercial activities of the former civil servant. Common world practice: yesterday's politician goes into business, and vice versa. There are many examples of this in blessed America. The family of the two Bush presidents are famous businessmen. Now the third Bush is about to go to the White House.

The question is different: how could Nemtsov suffer because of money? Ours and others.

Former Rubopovites see three options for the drama on the bridge.

1. "Greetings from the past." The First Deputy Prime Minister (at the same time the Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation!) oversaw the fuel and energy industry. The oxygen was cut off for many then. (And for others, on the contrary, he opened the valve. Evil tongues hint that until his last days, the former Deputy Prime Minister regularly received royalties from many large businessmen personally obliged to him since then.) Some ended up on bunks. We became free and decided to pay off our debts. Indeed, he had conflicts. With Gazprom, Berezovsky, etc.

There were also inmates. The same Andrey Klimentyev. Businessman convicted in the USSR. Friend, adviser and supposedly the main sponsor of the young governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. And when he got stronger, they say, he decided to get rid of the annoying businessman who demanded too much in return. (A common practice of the 90s. Yeltsin himself kicked Berezovsky out of the Kremlin, who boasted to too many people that he was the Family’s wallet. Another Wallet was found. Silent.) At the instigation of the governor, a criminal case was opened. He himself acted as a prosecution witness in court. There was a verdict in Nizhny. The Supreme Court, however, completely acquitted the businessman. In the end, Klimentyev went to prison for 6 years on that case. When the governor came to government. (But this, of course, is a pure coincidence.) Even the central media wrote a lot about the Klimentyev case in those years. There were other scandals. But I think all these are things of too long ago to take revenge.

2. Loans, debts. It's already hot. “Boris Nemtsov was the sex symbol of Russian political life ... funny, passionate, smart, and also a notorious heartthrob,” writes journalist Anna Nemtsova (a namesake who communicated with the deceased) in The Daily Beast. “Lovers and girlfriends adored Nemtsov for his generosity and for the most part continued to communicate with him even after the breakup of romantic relationships.” Generosity requires money. A lot. Moreover, a lot of girlfriends themselves. Another crisis broke out. Creditors demanded the money back. He couldn’t. They ordered it. Or he asked to repay the debts. In order not to repay them, they may well have killed him.

3. My experts see the Yaroslavl trail as the most promising for the investigation in the business series. The regional deputy has recently cut off the oxygen for many respectable people there, publicly exposing the “successful entrepreneurial activities” of the children and wives of major Yaroslavl officials (I read about one daughter - impressive!) Someone has already lost their chair. And serious business - pharmaceuticals, oil refining... Theoretically, political scientist S. Belkovsky himself, definitely not a friend of the Kremlin, allowed this version on Echo of Moscow: “In Yaroslavl, Nemtsov seriously interfered with a number of corrupt officials. The cost of killing him was quite small, hardly exceeding, in my opinion, 100 thousand dollars. And the damage he caused to corrupt officials through his actions was measured in millions.” The officials themselves, I believe, have the guts to order a whistleblower. But bandits, or rather “serious people,” probably had a share in their business. (We haven’t had bandits in crimson jackets for a long time, it’s not the dashing 90s in the yard.) They arranged everything, taking revenge for the lost millions of dollars and fearing new revelations and losses.

And which way is Duritskaya here, you ask? Professional killers have a code of honor, experts explained to me. This includes accurate execution of the order. If only Nemtsov is ordered, only him will be shot. It’s not at all a matter of the killer’s commercialism (I won’t kill for free!), or the unwillingness to take the sin on one’s soul for an extra soul killed. This is the law of the profession. No amateur performances! If you shoot a random witness - extra noise, attention. And the customer doesn’t need this (and perhaps the removed witness is actually his person, and the killer is not supposed to know about this). An extra corpse is a stain on one's reputation. Because of him, you can lose not only future orders, but also your life - immediately after such a mistake.

Just don’t need lofty liberal speeches that for any killer ordering such a famous politician is obvious suicide, he won’t sign up for it. Let's get this straight. For the thinning opposition, Nemtsov was a great politician and leader. Young people who are far from politics do not know him. So for a killer he is an ordinary victim. And the hired killer might not have known his last name. They gave me a photo, an advance payment, and off we went!

SACRED SACRIFICE

The most common version on this side of the barricades (as opposed to the liberal groan about the victim of the Regime). They say that the comrades-in-arms put the most unnecessary and useless of their leaders on the altar of the revolution. In order to use his blood to shake up the protest electorate that had fallen into suspended animation, to rouse them to storm the Kremlin, to organize a senseless and merciless Maidan throughout Great Rus'. Following the example of the neighbors, whom the deceased often visited. In this regard, they recall the scoundrel Berezovsky, who tried to overthrow the regime with the sacred murder of “his” candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation, Rybkin. But he escaped at the last moment (from the same Ukraine!), he wanted to live. Two more smaller potential candidates for the “victim” refused in advance Berezovsky’s flattering offers, sensing a catch. One, a “green” politician, walked several kilometers from Boris Abramych’s European villa, expelled by the owner for refusing. Well, at least he lost his legs...

But with the now fashionable term, not everything is so simple, ladies and gentlemen. Personally, I was very shocked when I read the essay “Seven Bullets” by literary critic Lev Pirogov.

“They write: “They didn’t mind killing anyone, Nemtsov was a waste material.” Do you know what “sacred sacrifice” means? Many ancient peoples had a ritual of executing a king. The king was considered responsible for fertility, and when his power was depleted, both the land and the people suffered from this, so the king was sacrificed to Mother Earth. That is, the first condition for donation is “waste material”. Second: the sacrifice took place on the days of death of the old year, before the rebirth of the sun and the new year. That is, on the border of winter and spring.”

But everything happened exactly according to the ancient ritual, guys! The protest has fizzled out. A “seasoned politician” was sacrificed. Just on the threshold of Spring! But the leadership of the opposition itself set the date of the protest march in advance for March 1... Coincidence?

And Pirogov surprises further. “Sometimes, in order to carry out the ritual execution of the king, but save his life, he was replaced by another person. For example, a criminal condemned to death was dressed in royal clothes, placed on the throne and allowed to “reign” for some time, for example, three days. The real king was moving away somewhere at that time. The criminal was executed, and the king returned.” But that’s how it is! The real king of protest now is Navalny. There has been a movement around him lately. The fight with Sobyanin for the post of mayor of Moscow, trials, arrests, protests, the January march in his defense on Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin (Nemtsov fought in his provincial Yaroslavl. Is there a difference?). The protest died down. In theory, Tsar Alexei should be thrown onto the altar before the spring march. But he quickly left. To a prison cell. I was stuck for 15 days myself. As I knew... All preparations for the march to Maryino fell on Nemtsov. Boris was allowed to reign for a while. And on the eve of the arrival of spring, as if according to ritual, sacrificial blood was shed. In exchange for the blood of the “real Tsar” Navalny. He returns on a white horse from prison. Calls for revenge on the regime for the death of a comrade-in-arms. Increases the fertility of protest.

The intellectual reader will probably be indignant: the 21st century is here, and you are talking biblical nonsense! “Don’t look for rational meaning in a sacred sacrifice,” answers literary critic Pirogov. - It must have a symbolic meaning. And in the murder of Nemtsov he is enough...

The place of sacrifice is beautiful - in view of the Kremlin, so that the international television viewer himself, without prompting, understands who is to blame and what will happen to him for it. Separately, the shots against the background of the Intercession Cathedral, called St. Basil's Cathedral - in honor of the holy fool resting there, who predicted the great fire of Moscow...

The white car is definitely beautiful... The murderers would drive a black BMW like everyone else, without attracting attention, but no. The white car was memorable. Now only the lazy will not remember the four horsemen of the Apocalypse: the first, the Conqueror (aka Plague and Pestilence), on a white horse. Second, War, on the red one, Hunger - on the black one, Death - on the pale one.

The deceased himself was handsome, which is also important. Imagine that (God forbid) some Ponomarev would be appointed as the sacred victim - with forever running mocking eyes, bald... What would a European housewife say to this? I wouldn't say anything. But here it’s another matter. She's a human. She does have a heart.

Then, the number of shots. Remember the expression - “seven bullets, like in Sarajevo”? This is from Jaroslav Hasek. It is thanks to him that we remember how many bullets Princip fired at Archduke Ferdinand Gavrilo Princip, giving the go-ahead to the First World War.”

Judging by the shell casings, 6 bullets were fired at Nemtsov. At first they even said, “seven or eight.” Although two are enough: in the heart and a control in the head. It is curious that now, after Nemtsov’s sacred death, ardent oppositionists are calling on the West to launch a crusade against Russia. Another world war. Former world champion Kasparov is especially angry. At a hearing in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he stated that it is necessary to continue isolating Russian President Vladimir Putin and supporting Kyiv with arms supplies. The Kremlin called it a cancerous tumor that cannot be negotiated with, but can only be “cut out.” That's the point of bullets.

“Of course, you will wince,” Pirogov concludes his essay. - Well, what kind of villain or special service agent (was it a coincidence that the first day of the Russian special services was marked with murder?) will tire himself today with all these ephemeral conventions? He has other things to worry about: routes of approach, escape, cover... Yes, of course. This can be answered with the words of Hamlet, the hero of perhaps the most important work about the regicide: “There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that our sages never dreamed of.” From a world in which art still exists, you can expect anything.”

Let me remind you: our protest leaders are entirely intellectuals, connoisseurs of high art, who adore the symbolism of Pelevin and other fashionable writers.

Pirogov did not ignore the person involved in our investigation. By the way, the list of symbols of the tragedy at the walls of the Kremlin began with her: “His companion, a 23-year-old citizen of Ukraine with some downright literary-centric surname Duritskaya, became a witness to the murder. Beautiful? Not that word. Wise. There are no accidents in sacred things.”

It turns out that according to the sacred scenario, Anna will escape death.

(Investigation to be continued)

QUESTION FROM THE EDGE

Why is there no normal video of the murder of Boris Nemtsov?

After all, there are dozens of surveillance cameras near Red Square

Boris Nemtsov was killed literally 100 meters from the Kremlin. There are a dozen video cameras around the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. But so far only a recording has been published from afar, from the roof of the Balchug Hotel, on which only cars and silhouettes of people in the form of dots are visible.

MEANWHILE

“Caucasian cat” Nemtsov - “Komsomolskaya Pravda”: “I was hunted!”

In Karachay-Cherkessia, a girl was not forgiven for her affair with a famous politician

31-year-old Zamira Duguzheva now cries almost all day long. Late in the evening of February 27, she learned that her former lover, famous politician Boris Nemtsov, had been shot on the Moskvoretsky Bridge. And also that her longtime rival Anna Duritskaya, it turns out, continued to meet with Nemtsov until the last.

BY THE WAY

Nemtsov was number 6 on the “List of Enemies of the Russian People”

In 2006, unknown persons included 27 people in it, of whom -19 remained alive

While searching for new versions of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, I came across the scandalous “List of Enemies of the Russian People.” It has been published several times on the Internet, and, as it turns out, has been updated several times in recent years. It first became known about it in 2006, immediately after the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya (she is in 19th place on the list).

On the night of February 28, in the center of Moscow on Vasilyevsky Spusk, Russian politician and statesman, deputy of the Yaroslavl Duma Boris Efimovich Nemtsov was killed.

This was reported by Ilya Yashin, a member of the bureau of the federal political council of the RPR-Parnas party.

“Unfortunately, I now see Boris’s corpse in front of me.” Bolshoi Zamoskvoretsky Bridge. I see a body and there are a lot of police around,” Yashin said.

19.46. TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov on the investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov: The most important thing at the moment is the efficiency and clarity of the work of law enforcement agencies ( AndRead the interview with a journalist about the murder of a Russian politician)

19.28. Expert Alexander Gurov: We cannot discount the everyday version of Nemtsov’s murder

Nemtsov’s death was immediately discussed as a political murder, a “sacred sacrifice.” However, could there be other motives? “Evening Moscow” asked this question to Alexander Gurov, police lieutenant general, State Duma deputy, and expert on organized crime. ()

18.52. Politician's lawyer: It is unlikely that Boris Nemtsov was killed by the people who threatened him

We will certainly provide maximum assistance to the investigation. We will provide all the documents on the people who threatened him, although I think that it is unlikely that those who openly threatened him killed him, that would be complete idiocy, - Boris Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

17.42. Expert Boris Nosov on the murder of Boris Nemtsov: I would not discount the everyday version

Now everyone is discussing versions of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, and the main attention is focused on his political activities. But retired police colonel Boris Nosov suggests that the crime.

17.30. Political scientist Sergei Markov: It would be right if both government officials and the opposition attend Nemtsov’s funeral

Political scientist Sergei Markov, immediately after the news about the death of Boris Nemtsov appeared, wrote on his Facebook page: “This murder is political, it was probably organized by foreign intelligence services preparing a color revolution in Russia, it was done with the aim of creating a “victim of the regime” (...) My personal opinion that the murder was organized by the SBU, headed by Nalyvaichenko, with the aim of causing an explosion of indignation in Moscow. There will be no indignation, because everyone in Russia understands that Nemtsov was killed by Putin’s enemies in order to blame this murder on Putin.”

“Evening Moscow” turned to the political scientist for comment. ()

16.20. On March 1, a procession will be held in the center of Moscow in memory of the politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed the day before.

13.52. The official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, voiced 5 versions of the motive for the murder of Nemtsov

More than 12 hours have passed since the murder of Boris Nemtsov. All night and today the investigative team worked to solve the crime, which caused a wide public outcry. And there was something to work on. The investigation is being kept secret. It is known that the car in which the criminal escaped has not yet been found. The results of interrogations of eyewitnesses are not advertised; it is possible that no useful information was received from them. Meanwhile, using modern technical capabilities, detectives will probably be able to make progress in solving the crime.

At the moment, the investigation is considering several versions: the murder as a provocation to destabilize the political situation in the country, and the figure of Nemtsov could become a kind of sacred victim for those who do not disdain any methods to achieve their political goals. The version connected with the Islamic extremist trace is also being carefully worked out. The fact is that the investigation has information that Nemtsov received threats in connection with his position regarding the shooting of journalists from the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. In addition, the version related to internal Ukrainian events is being checked. It is no secret that among both conflicting sides there are very radical characters who do not obey any authorities. But, of course, versions related to Nemtsov’s commercial activities and personal hostility towards him, as well as other everyday versions, cannot be excluded. All of them will be carefully checked - .

13.50. Political scientist Mikhail Remizov: The murder of Boris Nemtsov was done with the aim of escalating the situation

Now, indeed, a number of different versions are being put forward, but there are those that relate to technical details, and there are assumptions about the motives of what happened. In the first case, we are talking about how Boris Nemtsov ended up at the scene of his murder and what the role of his companion was in this.

As for the motives, as far as I know, Boris Nemtsov was far from conflicts related to business. This version is unlikely. The assumption that the reason for the murder could be his turbulent personal life is of a different quality. Nothing can be ruled out here, but for now this is also just guesswork. Reasoning by analogy suggests that the “look for a woman” version often explains crimes perceived as purely political.

But there are too many coincidences, and they don’t happen that often. So the political version is most likely. This murder was done with the aim of stirring up the situation, to revive the protest agenda before the March 1st march. It is worth noting that until last night this agenda was not available as such. This, in turn, may indicate the readiness of opposition leaders to play a far-reaching game with a free hand.

I don’t think that society will take seriously statements about the guilt of the authorities in this crime, because the lack of motive is too obvious. But this is certainly a challenge, because the murder of Boris Nemtsov is a demonstrative and daring special operation right in front of the FSO with a picture of a corpse against the backdrop of the Kremlin. Of course, it is difficult to perceive this as anything other than a failure of the intelligence services.

In addition, the opposition is already trying to change the location and format of its rally. The march in Maryino was initially not very interesting, but now one can demand that a march in the center of Moscow be allowed with actions directly at the scene of the murder. Provocations are also possible during the march itself.

13.34. Political scientist Valery Ostrovsky on the murder of Boris Nemtsov: Judging by the accuracy of the shooting, this crime was prepared for a long time

In recent years, this is the second murder timed to coincide with a specific date. Boris Nemtsov was killed on the eve of the opposition march, which is scheduled to take place on March 1. I immediately remember the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, which happened right before Vladimir Putin’s birthday.

The current tragedy is not just political, but a kind of ritual in nature. Apparently, according to the plans of the performers and organizers, it was supposed to take place in this very place, not far from Red Square, on a bridge created by the same architect who designed the Mausoleum. Such ritual coincidences certainly speak of a sophisticated provocative intent, because accidents are simply impossible here. ()

13.00. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin expressed condolences to the family and friends of Boris Nemtsov

I received the news of the murder of Boris Nemtsov with deep regret. A famous politician with strong convictions and principles has passed away. Everything possible must be done to ensure that those responsible for this crime are found and receive the punishment they deserve. Please convey words of sincere sympathy and support to the family and friends of Boris Efimovich,” the message says.

12.35. Former common-law wife of Boris Nemtsov: “I don’t yet have words to express this pain”

Acquaintances and friends noted that Boris Nemtsov was an energetic and open person and enjoyed great success with the opposite sex. The politician has four children from three different women. At the same time, the only official wife of the politician until his death was Raisa Nemtsova, a librarian by profession, now involved in investments. ()

12.32. The investigation has information that Boris Nemtsov received threats in connection with his position regarding the shooting of the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.

12.31. Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation: According to preliminary data, Boris Nemtsov was shot with a Makarov pistol.

11.55. Muscovites bring flowers to the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

Flowers on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge are brought individually and in small groups of two or three people.

10.52. The investigation established the last route of Boris Nemtsov.

According to the capital's law enforcement agencies, shortly before the murder, the politician and his companion had dinner at one of the GUM restaurants.

DETAILS OF THE MURDER OF BORIS NEMTSOV

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Elena Alekseeva, the “Interception” plan has been introduced in Moscow.

– The head of the Moscow Main Department of Internal Affairs, Anatoly Yakunin, went to the scene of the incident. The incident was reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev,” Alekseeva said.

She also told the details of the incident. According to Alekseeva, Nemtsov was walking along the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge with his companion. Four shots were fired at him in the back, resulting in his death.

Column by our columnist Lera Bokasheva

Boris Nemtsov. Sacred sacrifice or absurd accident?

I feel sorry for the man. It's always a pity when life is cut short - mercilessly, irreparably. Four bullets fired into the back. Political order? Domestic quarrel? They say Nemtsov was a conflicted person. They say he's a womanizer. Yes, simply - a living person. A lot can be said about Nemtsov.

Russian politician, statesman and public figure, businessman. Member of the Bureau of the Federal Political Council of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity". Co-chairman of the People's Freedom Party "For Russia without arbitrariness and corruption." People's Deputy of the RSFSR and member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. Deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation, ex-governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Former member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation, former Deputy Prime Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation. He was once considered a likely successor to Yeltsin ()