Paul Roderick Gregory: The Kremlin’s new ‘new’ version of the Nemtsov murder
Zaur Dadayev, charged with the murder of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, speaks inside a defendants' cage at the Basmanny district court in Moscow, on March 8.
On March 16, Kremlin insiders leaked a third version of the Nemtsov murder case. The first version of March 8 accused the five Chechens under arrest of killing Nemtosv on their own due to Islamic fundamentalism. The March 13 version depicted the Chechen 5 as mercenaries of Ukraine and cast suspicion on their boss, Chechnya’s strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov. The March 16 story line is that the Chechen 5 acted on their own out of personal hatred for Nemtsov and that their boss, Kadyrov, had nothing to do with the matter. Can we expect another version tomorrow?
