The shots on the bridge
Boris Nemtsov was killed about 23:15 Moscow time together with his companion, a citizen of Ukraine Anna Duritskaya was the Grand Kremlin from Moscow River bridge towards Bolotnaya street. For half an hour before he was interviewed by phone Ukrainian radio station “Vesti”, in which shared memories of what it wanted to do, Boris Yeltsin as his successor as president of Russia, but then changed his mind.
As told RBC his colleague Ilya Yashin with the words to call him Duritskaya , a few meters from the Cathedral of St. Basil to Nemtsov drove the car from which the unknown opened fire. As it turned out forensic experts, the criminals shot at least six times. Four bullets hit the Nemtsov , including the heart and the head. From his injuries, he died at the scene.
companion Nemtsov in an attack is not affected. After arriving at the scene police she received psychological help, besides the girl made the first reading.
The machine, which moved the criminals fled the scene. Witnesses have noticed that it was a car brand Ford white. Later, investigators studied the records from the cameras video , found that the approximate time of the murder on the bridge passed three cars Ford Focus and Mondeo. Number of machines have been installed, and then the car the suspects declared wanted.
Photo: George Malec
Start the investigation
At the scene came all the police leadership: Head of the Interior Ministry in Moscow Anatoly Yakunin , and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltsov, who took the case of the murder of Nemtsov under his personal control. By one o’clock, when reporters arrived at the RBC offense under the drizzle at the start of the Big Moscow River bridge was already working team of investigators, car center for emergency medical care, blocked the movement of several police cars. From behind the forensic and police could see the body of the slain that lie in the battened down clothes head to the parapet without a trace of blood.
The police pushed journalists cordoned off the entire left side of the bridge, and at first did not report any information. To the scene gathered supporters and friends of the deceased: the opposition, Mikhail Kasyanov and Ilya Yashin , journalist Xenia Sobchak with her husband, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko , columnist Kirill Rogov, the coordinator of “Open Russia” Vladimir Kara-Murza and others. Many people, including journalists, were crying.
According to the murder of the Main Investigation Department of the Russian IC in Moscow was prosecuted for offenses falling under h . 1 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and Art. 222 of the Criminal Code (trafficking in weapons).
To work at the scene of the crime started forensic experts, for several hours investigating the crime scene, collect evidence and studied the records from the cameras video . Toward morning, investigators came to the apartment to Nemtsov on Malaya Ordinka . As reported by Interfax , they began to withdraw the paper there.
As told the representative of the Investigative Committee Yulia Ivanova, on behalf of the head of department Alexander Bastrykina , to the investigation were connected and the best forensic investigators. A special investigation team, headed by Acting Head SC GUS Russia in Moscow Alexander Drymanov .
And the Investigative Committee and the Interior Ministry spokesman Elena Alexeeva reported that at the initial stage of the investigation considered all versions, including custom crime.
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The reaction of Russian politicians
A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Vladimir Putin called Kill Nemtsov provocation that is customized character. The President expressed his deep condolences to the families and friends of the deceased, instructed the heads of law enforcement agencies to take the investigation under his personal control.
According to the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev Law enforcement authorities should do everything possible to identify “the whole range of people involved in this murder of a prominent politician hard».
The Secretary of General Council « United Russia “Sergei Neverov said the need to catch the killers. “As the State Duma, we will closely monitor the progress of the investigation,” – he said.
At the scene came associates Nemtsov . Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov commented RBC happened: “It’s chaos beyond imagination. In 50- five meters from the Kremlin wall is my friend Boris Nemtsov . Russia has lived up to the situation that people are being killed near the Kremlin. It is a shock, as Russia can come to this ».
According to Ilya Yashin , the murder was politically motivated. “Boris regularly received threats, but did not attach any importance to this. I want to emphasize that Boris has been actively working on the report “Putin.Voyna” with him, he said, were evidence of the involvement of the Russian military in armed action in Ukraine. This is a political murder, which is entirely custom character, “- he said. He added that investigators immediately asked him to talk to them, but he refused to talk at night and suffered a poll on Saturday.
The lawyer RPR-Parnassus Vadim Prokhorov sure that murder is linked to political activities Nemtsov . “He’s from time to time received threats in the past year, he even wrote a statement to the police – said the defender. – But it is doubtful whether those who are going to commit murder, would openly threaten ».
Five high-profile murders in Moscow in the past 10 years
evening of September 14, 2006 on the street Deer in Sokolniki Val was shot first deputy chairman of Central Bank Russia Andrei Kozlov. The banker was walking to his car after a football match between bank employees. Ordered the killing, according to investigators, was a former chairman of the VIP Bank Alex Frankel .
Day September 24, 2008 Smolensk Square in Moscow was shot former State Duma deputy, Colonel Ruslan Yamadayev . His armored Mercedes stopped at a traffic light and the driver opened the window to smoke. At this point, the back and drove a BMW killer almost point-blank shot Yamadaeva and his driver, but the latter managed to survive. Later The Moscow City Court was found guilty of the crime of three natives of the Chechen Republic.
On the morning of April 12, 2010 near his apartment in the Strelbischensky Lane was killed by the judge The Moscow City Court Edward Chuvashov . According to investigators, the crime committed members of the so-called radical group Born, one of whose leaders was a nationalist Nikita Tikhonov. At this time, he Tikhonov has been detained on charges of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburovu . For these crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On the morning of June 10, 2011 was shot by a former colonel Yuri Budanov . Killer waylaid him near the notary office at the Komsomolsk Avenue. The Moscow City Court Vinnova admitted to murdering a Chechen Republic Yusuf Temerhanova . As a motive accusation referred to the fact that the father of Temerhanova killed the Russian military, and the defendant avenged all military as a whole.
Day January 13, 2013 at the restaurant near the street was shot Nikitskaya known authority Ded Hasan (Aslan Usoyan ). He was wounded in the head and died in hospital. A few years earlier, in September 2010, on Tverskaya Street it was attacked. Then he was shot in the abdomen, but survived. The perpetrators have not been found.
Reaction from abroad
President Barack Obama , commenting on the incident in Moscow, said he admired the Nemtsov : «We urge the Russian government to conduct a timely, fair and transparent investigation into his murder and to achieve justice to be done for those who committed this horrible crime. Nemtsov was a tireless defender of his country, who fought for his fellow citizens to enjoy the rights that all people have. I admired the fearless devotion Nemtsov the fight against corruption in Russia and is highly valued, how readily and sincerity he shared his views during our meeting in Moscow in 2009 ” .
Former US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul called Nemtsov your other: “I can not believe they killed my friend Boris Nemtsov . Nemtsov was a true patriot who believed in the fact that Russia can be a great ».
« I am shocked by the murder of a key opposition leader Boris Nemtsov . Killer must be brought to justice, “- said the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Torbjörn Jagland .
Its also expressed condolences to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko , Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk .
With the participation of Lola Tagaeva , Elizabeth Focht, Ivan Tkachev
Nemtsov Nemtsov
Born October 9, 1959 in Sochi. Political career began in the late 80- x s in the environmental movement. In March 1990 he was elected deputy of the RSFSR, was a member of the Bloc “coalition of reform” faction and the “Left Centre – Cooperation.” In 1991, Nemtsov appeared confidant of Boris Yeltsin in the Nizhny Novgorod region during the presidential elections in Russia. In August 1991, the politician was appointed Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Nizhny Novgorod region, and in December of the same year took over as head of administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In 1993, the governor of Nemtsov was elected to the Federation Council. In December 1995, a politician again took over as governor, defeating the election result with 58,37% .
In March 1997 Nemtsov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Oversaw the social block, housing and utilities and construction, natural monopolies and antitrust policy. From April to November 1997 while remaining deputy prime minister, held the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation. In spring 1998, with the rank of deputy prime minister was in charge of financial and economic bloc. After the default in August 1998 Nemtsov was appointed Acting Deputy Prime Minister.
In 2003 Nemtsov topped the list of the party “Union of Right Forces” in the elections to the State Duma. In 2004, elected to the board “Committee 2008″, in December 2008, Nemtsov entered the presidium and political council created by the opposition movement “Solidarity».
In 2010 Nemtsov , together with ex- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov , Vladimir Milov and Vladimir Ryzhkov announced the creation of the opposition coalition” For Russia without arbitrariness and corruption. ” Built on the basis of its political party for the presidential and parliamentary elections was established in December 2010 under the name of People’s Freedom Party (Parnas).
In regional elections September 8, 2013 Nemtsov was elected to Yaroslavl Oblast Duma on the list of the party “RPR-Parnassus».
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