Boris NEMTSOV, aged 55, the leading opposition politician in Russia was assassinated in the shadows of the Kremlin walls in Moscow on Friday, February 27, 2015 ! Alas, he is just the last victim in a string of similar such unexpected killings !
He was a well known former Deputy Prime Minister of President Boris Eltsin, when unexpectedly Putin was finally chosen to succeed Eltsin in the year 2000 !
President Putin has declared that all will be done quickly, to catch and punish the killers of Nemtsov. They fired four bullets and then sped off in a car !
The World is now watching ! What will happen ? Will Putin attend the funeral of Nemtsov, his erstwhile ally but who then became a thorn with his criticsms ? Will any killers really ever be caught and punished ?
The Rally which Nemtsov and his supporters had organised for today to protest against what is happening in Ukraine, has already been cancelled ! Instead "Remembrance Flowers" are being placed at the spot where Nemtsov was gunned to death ! It could become a shrine !
Putin will now certainly want to shift the blame away from the Kremlin and its walls ! Will he blame it all on the Islamic Terrorists now acting in Russia, or the Nationalists in Ukraine who are already killing ethnic Russians living there and driving them from their homes ?
He will certainly not invite 40 Heads of State to Moscow, like President Hollande did to Paris last January, after the "Charlie Hebdo" massacres !
Why is Putin planning to dock Russian ships in Cyprus ? Why are Russian troops having military exercices on the doorsteps of former small Russian satellite countries ? Does he want to add them to his conquest of Crimea 12 months ago ?
One can only speculate ! The future promises to be full of unexpected tidings, in this "merry month of March" !
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