The report “Putin. War” (“Putin. Voina”)—a summary of evidence of the involvement of the Russian military in the annexation of Crimea and in fighting in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas (encompassing Donetsk and Luhansk provinces)—was published and presented in Moscow this week (May 12). The report commemorates the late Boris Nemtsov (55), former governor of Nizny Novgorod, deputy Duma speaker, deputy prime minister, opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, who was gunned down last February in downtown Moscow, just a hundred meters from the Kremlin. Nemtsov apparently believed the “Putin. War” report could counter the Kremlin’s …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
