"Sweeney brought up Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Putin who was shot and killed immediately exterior to the Moscow Kremlin, and asked Dugin how the killing of Nemtsov reflected on the democratic values of Russia. Dugin countered, ""If you are engaged in Wikileaks you can be murdered."" When Sweeney queried Dugin to name U.S. reporters who had perished at the hands of the Obama Administration, Dugin said it was a ""completely stupid kind of conversation"", ended the interview, and left the area. The documentary first aired on the program ""Panorama"" on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 16 January"
"Assassination of Boris Nemtsov The assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, happened in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015. An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol; four of them hit Boris Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him almost instantly. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine. Nemtsov’s Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya, survived the attack, as sole eyewitness. The assassination was met with widespread international condemnation"
"wouldn't touch him because he was a [former] member of the Russian government, a vice premier, and they wouldn't want to create a precedent. Because as he said, one time the power will change hands in Russia again, and those who served Putin wouldn't want to create this precedent. Just before midnight, at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015, Nemtsov was shot several times from behind. He was crossing the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow, close to the Kremlin walls and Red Square. He died at the scene. He was murdered less than two days before he was due"
"policies and of their alleged role in Nemtsov’s assassination. Legislation to formally make the change was co-sponsored by the Council chairman, Phil Mendelson, who expected the bill to be approved by Council early in 2018. On January 9, 2018, the Council unanimously approved the “Boris Nemtsov Plaza Designation Act of 2017” which authorized the renaming, effective May 5, 2018. Assassination of Boris Nemtsov The assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, happened in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015. An unknown assailant fired seven or"
"Government to adopt a Raoul Wallenberg Commemorative Day, which is held annually on January 17, the day Wallenberg was captured by the Red Army. The RWCHR also co-sponsors the annual International Raoul Wallenberg Roundtable. Boris Nemtsov Boris Nemtsov, a Russian liberal politician that vehemently opposed Vladimir Putin, was assassinated on February 27, 2015 in central Moscow weeks after expressing concern that Putin would try to assassinate him. Nemtsov was a harsh critic of Putin's corruption and his annexation of Crimea and a strong advocate for democracy and the adoption of the Magnitsky Act. The RWCHR has taken steps to commemorate"
"Nemtsov (film) Nemtsov is a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader who was assassinated in Moscow on February 27, 2015. It was written, directed, and narrated by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, a Russian journalist and historian and a longtime friend and colleague of Nemtsov. The executive producer of the film is Renat Davletgildeev, former deputy editor-in-chief of TV Rain. ""Nemtsov"" chronicles the life and career of Boris Nemtsov from his work as a scientist and his activism in opposition to a nuclear plant in Gorky in the late Soviet period to his meteoric political rise in post-Soviet Russia,"
"and concern for the situation of the Russian opposition. Russian authorities also condemned the murder and vowed a thorough investigation. On 8 March 2015, Russian authorities charged Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadaev, both originating from Northern Caucasus, with involvement in the crime. Dadaev confessed to involvement in the murder according to Russian authorities, but according to Russian media later he retracted it back. Three more suspects were arrested about the same time and according to Russian media another suspect blew himself up in Grozny when Russian police forces surrounded his apartment block. Nemtsov was shot and killed crossing the Bolshoy"
"Oleg Kalashnikov Oleg Kalashnikov (; November 6, 1962 – April 15, 2015) was a Ukrainian politician, born in Rivne, Ukrainian SSR. He was a member of the Party of Regions, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of V convocation. On April 15, 2015, he was shot to death at his home in Kiev. On April 16, Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot to death in Kiev as well. A Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself Ukrainian Insurgent Army allegedly claimed responsibility for these and other murders in an email containing ""grammatical mistakes not typical for a native Ukrainian speaker"". The authenticity of the"
"Sergei Yushenkov Sergei Yushenkov (; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russian politician known for his campaigning for democracy, rapid free market economic reforms, and higher human rights standards in Russia. He was assassinated on 17 April 2003, just hours after registering his political party to participate in the December 2003 parliamentary elections. Yushenkov was an elected member of all Russian Parliaments from 1989 to 2003. During the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, he organized the ""living chain"" of civilians who came to protect their Parliament in Moscow, and he successfully negotiated with military personnel sent"
"during his career. He focused on war and its impact on children. In 2013, he held an exhibition called ""A Childhood not for Children."" Nikolayev was previously attacked by members of the Berkut special police forces when reporting on a ""Euromaidan"" event in Kiev on 1 December 2013. Nikolayev was killed in crossfire while covering fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists in the village of Peski on the outskirts of Donetsk on 28 February 2015. Pesky is located just 1.5 kilometers away from Donetsk airport. He was there with fellow colleague Bogdan Rossinsky, Rossinsky was non-lethally wounded and Serhiy"
"claim was questioned by the Ukrainian government as well as the very existence of the named group. Oleg Kalashnikov Oleg Kalashnikov (; November 6, 1962 – April 15, 2015) was a Ukrainian politician, born in Rivne, Ukrainian SSR. He was a member of the Party of Regions, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of V convocation. On April 15, 2015, he was shot to death at his home in Kiev. On April 16, Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot to death in Kiev as well. A Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself Ukrainian Insurgent Army allegedly claimed responsibility for these and other murders"
"Aleksey Mozgovoy, Yevgeny Ishchenko, Andrei Purgin and Dmitry Lyamin (the last two arrested). In August 2016 Igor Plotnitsky, head of LPR, was seriously injured in a car bombing attack in Luhansk. In September 2016 Evgeny Zhilin (Yevhen Zhylin), leader of a separatist ""Oplot"" unit, was killed in a restaurant near Moscow. In October 2016 a military commander Arseniy Pavlov (""Motorola"") was killed by an IED planted at his house. In February 2017 a bomb planted in an office killed Mikhail Tolstykh (""Givi""). On 31 August 2018 DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko was killed by a bomb in a restaurant in Donetsk."
"the incident, with Russia posing economic sanctions and travel restrictions for its citizens. Karlov blamed Turkey for the crisis, and it was not until June 2016 that diplomatic relations were normalized. During an interview two months after the incident, Karlov also claimed there was no evidence that Russian warplanes were bombing civilians in Syria. On 19 December 2016, at 20:15, Karlov was shot and fatally wounded by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old off-duty Turkish police officer, at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey. The attacker, who was dressed in a suit and tie, opened fire at Karlov at point-blank range"
"(2015), which is inconsistent with his lavish life-style, luxury vehicles, watches, race horses and mansions. An assassination attempt on Kadyrov and a parliament member Adam Delimkhanov was averted on 23 October 2009, by the police. Chechen Deputy interior minister Roman Edilov said the police shot dead the driver of a speeding car loaded with a 200-litre tank after firing warning shots shortly before Kadyrov was to arrive at a construction site. The driver of the car was later identified as a militant leader (so-called Urus-Martan emir Beslan Bashtayev). Said-Emi Khizriev, who played a role in organising the attack, was killed"
"that FSB organized the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, consistent with a previous report by journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Sergei Yushenkov Sergei Yushenkov (; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russian politician known for his campaigning for democracy, rapid free market economic reforms, and higher human rights standards in Russia. He was assassinated on 17 April 2003, just hours after registering his political party to participate in the December 2003 parliamentary elections. Yushenkov was an elected member of all Russian Parliaments from 1989 to 2003. During the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, he organized the ""living chain"" of"
"off the accusations against him if he would pay them US$3 million. Voronenkov has been accused by Alexey Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation of using ill-gotten wealth to buy extensive property and automotive holdings worth hundreds of millions of rubles. Voronenkov had multiple properties including a luxury villa worth 300 million rubles, which his annual parliamentary salary of 3 million rubles (his highest ever reported income), given that he has only ever worked in the Russian government, could scarcely have afforded him. Voronenkov was shot and killed in Kiev as he left the Premier Palace hotel on 23 March 2017."
"do. They understand what they got involved in only after they find themselves in the middle of some action."" However, Vyacheslav Veremiy, a ""Vesti Reporter"" (Вести. Репортер) journalist traveling to Euromaidan, was pulled out of his car by a Titushky squad and shot to death point-blank from a concealed gun, indicating more than just a happenstance action. Veremiy's killing was confirmed on Wednesday 19 February 2014 at 6.45 am. According to ""What's On"" magazine, Titushky openly fired live ammunition on 18 February 2014, resulting in the death at least one protester at the scene near the Supreme Court building in"
"personal data of citizens described as ""separatists"" or ""Kremlin agents"" by the authors of the site. Several media have reported that it provided the personal data, including home address, of an assassinated former MP from the Party of Regions, Oleg Kalashnikov, and journalist and writer Oles Buzina. When asked about possible responsibility for the illegal distribution of personal data, he stated, ""This site contains data on more than 25,000 men. More than 300 of them are either arrested or killed. So why should I worry about some two lowlifes who are guilty of war?"" On 22 July 2015, President Petro"
"""burn all Paris"" and ""sturm Berlin"" during a speech at the Duma. In May 2015 he stated that former President of Georgia, and then governor of Odessa, Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, should be killed. ""We will shoot all of your governors, starting with Saakashvili, then they'll be afraid. And there will be a different situation in Europe and Ukraine. ... Let's aim at Berlin, Brussels, London, and Washington."" He then said Ukrainian political prisoner Nadiya Savchenko should be shot and hanged in Belgrade. In November 2015, after the incident of a Russian jet plane being shot down by a Turkish F-16"
"do"". On the same day, Russia announced a ban on the use of its airspace by Ukrainian aircraft. In January 2015, it became clear that Russian authorities would not allow a Member of the European Parliament, Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, make a visit to Moscow due to political reasons. In March 2015, Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete and Speaker of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz were both denied entry into Russia under the existing sanctions regime, and were thus unable to attend the funeral of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. After a member of the German Bundestag was denied entry into"
"to North Korea. On 21 December 2016, two days after his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation by the Kremlin. The city of Ankara announced that the exhibition hall where Karlov was assassinated would be renamed in his memory. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Karyağdı Street in Ankara – where the Russian embassy is located – will also be similarly renamed after Karlov. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he has requested that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ""make a proposal for the perpetuation of [Karlov's] memory"". Andrei Karlov Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov"
"to the attack, Chechen separatists had been responsible for several terrorist attacks in Russia. In 2016, ISIS had plotted to target St. Petersburg due to Russia's military involvement in Syria, resulting in arrests. No public transport system in Russia had been bombed since the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings.ISIS propaganda was being circulated prior to this incident. It encouraged supporters to launch strikes on Moscow. ISIS propaganda showed bullet holes through Putin's head and a poster circulated before the attack of a falling Kremlin and included the message ""We Will Burn Russia."" In 22 April 2017, two people were shot and"
"drawn parallels between the murder of Umarali Quvvatov and the late February assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Speaking to journalists on 6 March, Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, compared the killing to the recent deaths of Nemtsov and Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Rajabi Mirzo, an independent political analyst, described Quvvatov's death as a ""shameful and terrible event"" that could be compared with Nemtsov's killing. ""Nemtsov was killed the day before the announced rally, and Quvatov after the announcement of the [parliamentary] election results,"" he wrote."
"for the future of Russia,"" and ""They were afraid of you, Boris."" Several thousand people also marched in St. Petersburg. Political consultant Gleb Pavlovsky opined that Russia had been overcome by ""a Weimar atmosphere"" in which there were ""no longer any limits."" And opposition activist Leonid Volkov maintained that Russians now lived ""in a different political reality."" United States President Barack Obama called on Russia's government to launch ""a prompt, impartial, and transparent"" investigation to ensure that ""those responsible for this vicious killing are brought to justice"". German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the ""cowardly murder"". A statement by her office"
"the group from 9 May 2011 until his death. Russian investigators say Daudov brought his wife and another woman to Moscow in 2009 to carry out a suicide attack on people celebrating New Year's Eve near the Kremlin, but their bomb exploded hours earlier in a Moscow suburb. Daudov's wife was killed in the explosion and several people were arrested. On 10 February 2012 Russian security forces attacked a house that contained a number of militants including Ibragimkhalil. On 14 February 2012 Ibragimkhalil Daudov was found dead in a river near the village of Gurbuki. He had apparently escaped from"
"DPR military commander Mikhail Tolstykh was killed by an explosion while working in his Donetsk office on 8 February 2017. On 31 August 2018 DPR leader Zakharchenko was killed by a bomb in a restaurant in Donetsk. From April to July 2014 the unrecognized republic controlled most of Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast stretching from the city of Mariupol in the south on the Azov Sea north to Sviatohirsk and Sloviansk near the border with Kharkiv Oblast. However, much of this territory has been brought under control of the Government of Ukraine in the early July 2014 post-ceasefire government offensive and the"
"Khalilov and 27 others which killed all 92 passenger onboard including Anton. Anton Gubankov Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov (; 29 January 1965 – 25 December 2016) was a Russian journalist and civil servant. He worked as a television journalist until 2013. He served as the Director of the Department of Culture in the Russian Ministry of Defence from 2013 to 2016. In this role Gubankov popularised the term ""Polite People"" (referring to the unmarked Russian soldiers during the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea). He died in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash when he was on his route to"
"euthanasia, stating the proposed law was ""demonic"". Glinka and her work were the subject of a documentary film by Elena Pogrebizhskaya. In 2012 Glinka received the Order of Friendship award, and in 2015 the Decoration ""For Beneficence"". In December 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin presented her with another national award, the State Prize of the Russian Federation, for outstanding achievements in charity and human rights activities. Glinka died in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash on 25 December 2016, while travelling to Latakia to deliver medical supplies to Tishreen University Hospital. Glinka was married to a bankruptcy attorney,"
"Assassination of Andrei Karlov Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty Turkish police officer, at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey on the evening of 19 December 2016. The assassination took place after several days of protests in Turkey over Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War and the battle over Aleppo. The assassination took place after a long period of highly polarized and incited political atmosphere in Turkey, and after several days of protests by Turks against Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War and in particular the battle over Aleppo."
"his injuries. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that the shooting was designed to disrupt the warming Russia–Turkey relations. ""The New York Times"" suggested a possible motive was revenge for the Russian Air Force's targeting of rebel-held areas in Aleppo. Although seemingly an act of revenge against Russian military involvement in Aleppo as part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War, some have suspected Islamic extremism or anti-Russian sentiment to be the cause of the attack. President-elect of the United States Donald Trump accused the assassin of being ""a radical Islamic terrorist"", and the Russian State Duma said that ""The culprits"
"the Rivne Oblast in his office and threatened to ""slay as a dog"" the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. On 28 February 2014, criminal proceedings were opened against him. On 7 March 2014, ITAR-TASS reported that he was wanted by Russian authorities for war atrocities. On 11 March 2014, Russian State Duma opposition leader Valery Rashkin urged Russian special services to ""follow Mossad examples"" and assassinate Right Sector leaders Dmytro Yarosh and Muzychko. On 24 March 2014 Oleksandr Muzychko was shot dead. There are conflicting stories about how this happened. An official inquiry concluded he had shot himself in"
"of prisoners of war. In January 2015, several videos surfaced of Tolstykh physically abusing prisoners captured at the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport. Tolstykh is seen clearly identifying himself before grabbing the prisoners by the face, brandishing a dagger, and cutting off military insignia and forcing prisoners to eat them. Oleksandra Matviychuk, head of the Kiev-based Center for Civil Liberties, calls what appears in the videos ""flagrant violations of the Geneva Conventions"" and says she is preparing the groundwork for prosecution. Early morning on February 8, 2017 while working in his Donetsk office, Tolstykh was killed by an explosion said"
"emerged at first hearings held at the end of January 2015. The last day of hearings was on 31 July 2015. The inquiry report was released on 21 January 2016. The report found that Litvinenko was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun and that there was a ""strong probability"" they were acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service. Paragraph 10.6 of the report stated: ""The FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin."" The Report outlined five possible motives for the murder: a belief Litvinenko"