Amy Knight: A Kremlin conspiracy gone wrong?
Russia's opposition supporters march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow on March 1.
Last week, when Russian authorities rounded up five Chechen suspects in the assassination of leading opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, it appeared the Kremlin was following a predictable path. After offering numerous far-fetched hypotheses about who committed the murder and why, the Russian Investigative Committee settled on the same explanation it has put forth in numerous past political murders, including that of Anna Politkovskaya: the Chechens did it.
