A Fairfield University professor is joining international calls for a full and transparent investigation into the killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
David McFadden is director of the Russian and East European studies program at Fairfield. He said he doesn’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the murder, “but there are plenty of right-wing people close to the regime, or on the fringes of the regime, that wanted him dead because he was a great opposition alternative,” he said.
Thousands of people marched Sunday in Moscow in memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was shot to death last week. Nemtsov was to have led a major demonstration protesting the war in Ukraine, and the hardship that Russians are feeling because of international sanctions imposed by Europe and the U.S.
McFadden said the U.S. should throw its full weight behind the implementation of the Minsk agreement which would end fighting in eastern Ukraine, “or a cease fire between the separatist forces backed by Russia, and the Ukrainian government, because there is a danger of a European-wide war, and maybe even an East/West conflict. Germany understands that fully. France understands that fully. The United States, I'm not sure, understands that as fully.”
McFadden is calling on all those working to end the war in Ukraine to insist on knowing the full truth about the murder of Boris Nemtsov.
