Critics tend to end up in jail or under the ground.
Via RFERL:
Russian news agencies say prominent opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow.
The Interfax news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying that Nemtsov was shot four times by an unidentified assailant late in the evening on February 27 and died of his injuries.
Interfax said it did could not independently verify the report.
Nemtsov’s fellow Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin said on Twitter that Nemtsov was shot and is “dead.”
Once considered a potential successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, Nemstov became an opposition politician and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Update:
Boris #Nemtsov, on 10 February 2015: "I am… a bit… afraid Putin will kill me."
http://t.co/9gRKWokM6S
— Evgen Vorobiov (@vorobyov) February 27, 2015
A single picture that tells the news story. Boris Nemtsov's body lies just yards from Moscow's power. (Pic: AFP) pic.twitter.com/NKZl0DjKlL
— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) February 27, 2015
Update:
Reports now that police are ransacking Nemtsov's home. Putin's enemies are always victims, and his victims are always suspects.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) February 28, 2015
https://t.co/RBTn49IH7h Reports that police are now at Nemtsov’s apartment, seizing documents from his home.
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) February 28, 2015
Wonder if they were searching for more names of people who are critical of Putin. Nemtsov had been encouraging people to attend a protest against Putin on Sunday.