Boris Nemtsov's Murder: Don't Jump to Conclusions

Of the many questions raised by the murder of Boris Y. Nemtsov, the fifty-five-year-old opposition figure who served in the 1990s as Nizhniy Novgorod province’s governor and then as Boris Yeltsin’s first deputy prime minister, two are particularly important. First: Who did it and why? Second: How will it affect the already rancorous relationship between Russia and the West?

Western governments have, appropriately, called for a thorough and impartial investigation to bring the killers to justice. 

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