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Posted on 03/18/2024 3:33:42 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Britain and Russia
400 people arrested for what they said on social media.
3300 people arrested in the same year for what they said on social media.
Guess which is which.
Chad the #NeverTrump
Putin never called me Deplorable, or wanted to put me in a FEMA ReEducation Kamp.
We’re still stunningly complacent about the grave threat tyrant Biden presents to our way of life and democratic values.
There, I fixed it.
WIKI
[Boris] Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow, with four shots fired from the back. At the time of his assassination, he was in Moscow helping to organize a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis. At the same time, he was working on a report demonstrating that Russian troops were fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, which the Kremlin had been denying, and was unpopular externally but also in Russia. In the weeks before his death, he expressed fear that Putin would have him killed. In late June 2017, five Chechnya-born men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles (US$253,000); neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is officially known.
From 1976 to 1981, Nemtsov studied physics at State University of Gorky in the city of Gorky, receiving a degree in 1981.
Aged 25 in 1985, he defended his dissertation for a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of Gorky. Until 1990, he worked as a research fellow at the Radiophysical Research Institute and produced more than 60 academic publications related to quantum physics, thermodynamics and acoustics.
In Russia’s first free elections of 1990, he ran for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic representing Gorky, later renamed Nizhny Novgorod. Nemtsov was elected, the only non-communist candidate. He defeated twelve others. Once in Parliament he joined the “Reform Coalition” and “Centre-Left” political groups.
In the Russian parliament, Nemtsov was on the legislative committee, working on agricultural reform and the liberalization of foreign trade. In this position he met Boris Yeltsin, who was impressed with his work. During the October 1991 attempted coup by Soviet hardliners, Nemtsov vehemently supported the president and stood by him during the entire clash.
In November 1991, Yeltsin appointed him Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was re-elected to that position by popular vote in December 1995. His tenure was marked by a wide-ranging, chaotic free market reform program nicknamed “Laboratory of Reform” for Nizhny Novgorod and resulted in significant economic growth for the region. Nemtsov’s reforms won praise from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who visited Nizhny Novgorod in 1993.
In December 1993, Nemtsov was elected to the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament. During the election campaign he was backed by Russia’s Choice and Yabloko, which were then the principal liberal parties in the country.
In 1996, Nemtsov brought Yeltsin a petition with one million signatures against the First Chechen War.
In March 1997, Nemtsov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, with special responsibility for reform of the energy sector. He was tasked with restructuring the monopolies and reforming the housing and social sectors. He became popular with the public and appeared favoured to become President of Russia in 2000. Boris Yeltsin introduced him to Bill Clinton as his chosen successor. In the summer of 1997, opinion polls gave Nemtsov over 50% support as a potential presidential candidate. His political career, however, suffered a blow in August 1998 following the crash of the Russian stock-market and the ensuing economic crisis.
Nemtsov had worked in Moscow’s “White House” for only a year and a half, although he stated he had some success. He ended the corrupt act of stashing budget funds in commercial banks. He also managed to introduce an anti-corruption law for all state purchases in the government. He also helped to end the illegal export of raw materials and made oil sales more transparent. “And, most importantly, while I was the minister responsible for fuel and energy, oil was at barely 10 US dollars per barrel, and still we managed to save Russia. Things were difficult, what with social unrest, strikes, the war in Chechnya, the ‘default’, and still – let me repeat – we did save Russia.”
After the dismissal of Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin in 1998, Nemtsov was reappointed Deputy Prime Minister, but resigned shortly afterwards when Yeltsin dissolved the government. According to The Economist, Nemtsov, unlike many other top government figures, “emerged from the troubled 1990s with his reputation intact.”
In January 2004, Nemtsov co-authored an article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta entitled “Appeal to the Putinist Majority”, with his longtime adviser and party colleague Vladimir V. Kara-Murza. This article warned of the danger of an impending Putin dictatorship.
During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections, Nemtsov came out as a strong supporter of the eventual winner Viktor Yushchenko, while the Russian government backed his opponent, Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after the Orange Revolution, as the elections and series of protests in Ukraine came to be called, Yushchenko appointed Nemtsov as an economic adviser. Nemtsov’s main goal was to improve business ties between Ukraine and Russia, damaged after the Putin government strongly supported Yushchenko’s opponent in the presidential election. Yushchenko’s selection of Nemtsov was controversial owing to Nemtsov’s vocal criticism of Putin.
As a Sochi native, he had criticized plans to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics in the town. He believed it was this criticism which led Nashi members to attack him with ammonium chloride on 23 March 2009.
In a March 2010 interview, Nemtsov criticized the decision to hold a Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying that Putin had “found one of the only places in Russia where there is no snow in the winter. ... Sochi is subtropical. There is no tradition of skating or hockey there. In Sochi, we prefer football, and volleyball, and swimming. Other parts of Russia need ice palaces – we don’t.” The construction at the Olympics site was “disastrous” for the local economy, he added, saying that about 5,000 citizens had been removed from their homes to build Olympic facilities. He also added that “thanks to the corruption and incompetence of authorities, [these people have] not yet been adequately compensated for their property or been given equivalent housing elsewhere, as they were promised. Billions of dollars have simply disappeared.”
Nemtsov had befriended Michael McFaul, probably at some point before the latter was named US Ambassador to Russia in December 2011. Ambassador McFaul reminisces the Nemtsov told him that the best way for Putin to be stopped was to help Ukraine adopt Western values
On 31 December 2010, he was arrested with other opposition leaders during a rally against government restrictions on public protests. He was sentenced on 2 January 2011 to 15 days in jail.
Nemtsov also stated:
There is a myth spreading about how, in the 1990s, we democrats were pals with oligarchs while Putin was fighting them. It was exactly the other way around. We did not let Berezovsky get a foothold in (the world’s largest natural gas company) Gazprom, we did not allow him to take over the Svyazinvest company (Russia’s largest telecom holding). Yet Putin used to go to his birthday parties and bring flowers to his wife. It was Berezovsky who lobbied for Putin to become president and then financed his campaign.
In December 2013, Nemtsov said on behalf of his party:
We support Ukraine’s course toward European integration
Nemtsov was among the few Russian statesmen to vocally oppose the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Nemtsov stated that he viewed Crimea as an integral part of Ukraine, that he considered its annexation by the Russian Federation to be illegal, and that the people of Crimea and not Russian legislators should decide which country they want to live in. In an op-ed published on 1 September 2014 in the Kyiv Post, Nemtsov lamented the “fratricidal war” between Russia and Ukraine.
He criticized Putin in 2014:
This is not our war, this is not your war, this is not the war of 20-year-old paratroopers sent out there. This is Vladimir Putin’s war.
He accused Putin of “trying to dissect Ukraine and create in the east of the country a puppet state, Novorossiya, that is fully economically and politically controlled by the Kremlin.”
I cannot understand what Putin expects when he arms 20,000 Kadyrovites. Putin diligently finances Chechnya by sending there trains loaded with money. The republic receives a minimum of 60 billion rubles a year in grants. Only Allah knows how much money is being siphoned off...
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 to take part in a peace rally against Russian involvement in the war in Ukraine and the financial crisis in Russia.
BBC News reported: “In his last tweet, Mr. Nemtsov sent out an appeal for Russia’s divided opposition to unite at an anti-war march he was planning for Sunday.” BBC News also quoted him as saying: “If you support stopping Russia’s war with Ukraine, if you support stopping Putin’s aggression, come to the Spring March in Maryino on 1 March.”
The night after Nemtsov’s murder, his papers, writings and computer hard drives were confiscated in a police search of his apartment on Malaya Ordynka street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov
We don’t need Russia, we got Biden.
I can’t believe you’re complete lack of respect for the legitimately elected leader of Russia. I guess next, you’ll be disrespecting Joe Biden for his legitimate presidential win in 2020.
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You have to laugh. London mayor is a muzzard. Street scenes show some Brits and lots of muzzards strolling around.
Then there is this. Who is the villian here? The Brit, of course.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4212266/posts
Who is PM of UK? Rishi Sunak, such a Brit name.
And this idiot thinks Putin threatens his way of life and phony democratic values? What “values” nincompoop?
The biggest threat to American peace and prosperity is Americans voting for Democrats.
Besides FR Zeeperville, is this your other joint, “Chad?”
https://hipcrime.substack.com/p/stranger-in-a-strange-land
“I don’t have any friends here. Nor, really, do I want any. There’s nothing I see in ninety-nine percent of Americans I encounter that would motivate me to become friends with them, even if there were the remotest chance of that happening. We would have nothing in common. Most of the few close friends I’ve had have been people originally from outside the United States, or at least have lived outside the United States for an extended period of time. Maybe that makes me an “elitist” despite growing up near the bottom of the social totem pole. I don’t care.”
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Once "great" Britain is fast becoming just another among some aging ex-empire nations rapidly changing their complexion.
This morning, right here on FR, England, Scotland and Wales All Have Non-White Leaders Now Related news from the British Isles....
If Ian Birrell, former speechwriter to Prime Minister David Cameron, thinks "We're still stunningly complacent about the grave threat tyrant Putin presents to our way of life and democratic values," all he need do is convince the UK government to commit troops to the front line in Ukraine against the "grave threat."
As another FR voice indicated in quoting a song lyric, "march into hell for a heavenly cause."
Good find! And very interesting…
Wow, I feel very sad and disgusted with the person who wrote that piece.
It is shameful how he just lumped everyone but his misfit self into his hateful screed. He can find not even one American good enough to be considered a friend to him.
I have been an American since birth and I remember a lot better times in America too, but what is happening now in America is also happening in all western countries.
I know, and still find some pretty wonderful people in this country each day as I go about my business. In some respects, the tyranny we are facing has brought many of us together and is also bringing many back to God.
I think the author of this overly long complaint against all Americans is the real problem. It is as if everyone but his wonderful self is horrible.
Good digging, Rocco. Chad C. Mulligan is so typical of Zeepers; they’re enamored with foreigners and the EU more so than America.
IAN BIRRELL: We’re still stunningly complacent about the grave threat tyrant Putin presents to our way of life and democratic values
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Nothing like a daily dose of GloboWoke propaganda to start off breakfast.
No.
We don’t believe you Chad, this sounds exactly like you. Go away.
No.
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