New democratic Russia differs from old USSR in disappearing people

Soviets just disappeared people into the Gulag; in the new Russia, the thing to do is simply gun down opposition on a bridge in central Moscow.

‘Russian Opposition Leader Murdered in Moscow’

“Major Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was shot dead Friday night in central Moscow.

“The Interior Ministry said Nemtsov was shot four times from a passing car as he walked across a bridge over the Moscow River right next to the Kremlin.”

Chicago Depression-era style of murder.

President Vladimir Putin was “immediately notified” of Nemtsov’s murder. Putin said the Kremlin will oversee investigations.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/russia/2015/russia-150227-voa01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e1354%2eye0ao05v9c%2e18pl

(Reichstag fire?)

Vladimir Bukovsky, a friend of Nemtsov’s, said the killing was “a state murder.” That can mean more than one thing in Russia -- state security apparatus orders or Russian mafia goons working for people who have peculiar influence in government.