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USAs tidligere ambassadør i Sovjetunionen, James F. Matlock har skrevet en artikkel om drapet på Boris Nemtsov som går stikk imot gruppetenkninga i Washington og Vesten forøvrig. Matlock formidler en analyse han har mottatt fra en av sine kilder i Russland, og den er vel verdt å lese.
I do not think Putin was behind this. The reason is that a murder in the center of Moscow literally at the walls of the Kremlin discredits him and the security apparatus. The Kremlin Walls and the Bekhlimishevskaya Tower frame the scene with St. Basil’s to the right. It is simply difficult to imagine a location that could include more symbols of the Russian state. It looks like a frame up. I can’t help remembering how in the 1990′s, one way to get an adversary to capitulate in a fight over a company was to show him his security had been breached. (This is one of the reasons that Yanukovich fled when he did–because he could no longer count on the loyalty of the people providing physical protection.) This may be unfair. After all, road and pedestrian traffic are not checked in the area. Everything is filmed and there are certainly many police nearby, but no one is going to stop you if you bring arms into the area and try to murder someone. How would they know? So it may be unfair, but that’s the way it’s going to be perceived–as a highly symbolic breach of security. It’s hard for me to imagine that there won’t be personnel changes over this.
Les resten av artikkelen her: Is Nemtsov’s Murder a Replay of Kirov’s?
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