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TWO MEN HAVE been charged with the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov today as the five suspects in the case appeared in court to determine whether they will be officially placed in detention.
Two men of Chechen origin, Zaur Dadayev and Anzor Gubashev, were charged with “the murder of Boris Nemtsov and three others are still suspects,” Anna Fadeyeva, spokeswoman for the court in central Moscow, told the RIA Novosti news agency.
The number of suspects in the case grew from two to five today with the announcement of the detention of Gubashev’s younger brother Shagid Gubashev and two others named only as Bakhayev and Eskerkhanov, whose case would be handled by a separate judge.
Nemtsov, a longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot four times in the back as he strolled with his girlfriend along a bridge in full view of the Kremlin and Red Square last weekend.
The audacious murder in one of the most secure parts of the Russian capital sent shivers through an opposition which has seen several critics of the Kremlin killed in recent years and accuses Putin of steadily suppressing independent media and opposition parties.
Nemtsov’s daughter Zhanna Nemtsova, in an interview with CNN from Germany, said the murder was obviously “politically motivated.”
The activist had long complained of being followed and having his phone tapped.
Putin has described Nemtsov’s killing as a tragedy that brought disgrace on Russia and vowed that everything would be done to bring to justice those who committed a “vile and cynical murder”.
Reporting from AFP. Edited by Daragh Brophy.
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Hopefully they find the dirt that did this!
Accidents happen and we don’t know the facts of how this happened or who was to blame whether it be the driver or the deceased but it takes a certain type of low life to leave a man to die on the road and for that I hope they are caught and receive a befitting punishment.
They really need to change the laws around hit and runs, they are far far too lax,
Should be a min sentence of 5 or 10years for leaving the scene and
I got knocked down while walking home from a pub one night .i was 20yards from my home the guy that knocked me down walked me home told me he would call to me in morn ” after he sobered up ” next thing I knew the guards were at my house at 11 am to take a statement and to look where it happened he brought me to court for bursting up front of his car I was fined 120 pounds for obstructing traffic or 1 month in jail he got off scot free cos he knew d guards I was off work for 6 mths after cos I cud barly walk some justice system in this country my arse. Jail would b too gud for these people.
Think you told that story before, the name and some of the facts have changed though
Sorry but I haven’t told that story before. Might have happened to someone else as well .
Disgusting , leaving the scene, cruel to do it to an animal. If the person responsible is found I hope they are charged with manslaughter .
Anyone not wearing a high visibility at night while walking the roads at night should be fined, an innocent driver who hits someone in dark clothing at night is automatically branded in the wrong.
If the driver was innocent which could be quite likely they should have stopped…I know fear may have struck them but coming forward the next day would have been something. Cowarding away only increases the doubts of guilt
They drove off after hitting him. That IS automatically in the wrong.
Leaving the scene is inexcusable.
People shouldn’t drink and drive this guy was drunk cos I saw him that night in my local drinking so havin a highvis on or not he was in the wrong when u get hit by a car come back and talk to me god lad.
There is not much care on the roads up there. Too many hit & runs, many of them our northern drivers who don’t give a crap (sometimes).
To be fair that is a gross generalisation…be like saying all people ‘down there’ in limerick are druggies….the fact is no theyre not nor are all Northern drivers hoping the border to drive recklessly
The poor woman, discovering her dead husband. This is around the corner from my cousin’s house.
Also, that’s not how you spell Boynagh.
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