Vershbow: Nemtsov report on the events in Ukraine merit – RIA Novosti

BRUSSELS, May 18 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Shishlo. report on the events in Ukraine, which was prepared according to data collected, including the co-chair of the “RPR-Parnassus” Boris Nemtsov, deserves limelight, he said NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow.

The report’s authors argue that it allegedly presented evidence of the presence of Russian armed forces on the territory of Ukraine. For its part, supporters of Nemtsov want to check the version of the investigation that the killing policy related to his work on the Ukrainian report.

“I think that the report Nemtsov deserves everyone’s attention,” – said Vershbow, answering questions the session of the parliamentary session of NATO in Bucharest. At the same time, NATO Permanent Under Secretary noted that he personally did not read based on data from open sources report. According to Vershbow, the headquarters of the Alliance and a copy of the document in the near future it will be translated into English and the Permanent Under Secretary of NATO will be able to read it.

Earlier it was reported that after the murder of Nemtsov’s colleagues managed to collect part of the materials that he was preparing the report. Among these materials – note Nemtsov compiled by the day before the death, which refers to the alleged paratroopers killed in the Ukraine from Russia.

The Ukrainian authorities, as well as the US and the EU have repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the affairs of Ukraine. Russia, in turn, stated that is not a party to the conflict and the internal Ukrainian absolutely not privy to the events in the south-east of Ukraine: no intelligence agents, troops are not there.

Nemtsov, shot in central Moscow on the night of Feb. 28, She held in the 1990s a number of senior positions in the Russian government, and in the 2000s joined the opposition. The investigation is considering several versions, including the contract killing. One is associated with the Islamic extremist trace – there is evidence that the Germans had received threats in connection with his position with respect to the execution of the journalists of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. However, formal charges filed by the article “murder for hire, a group of persons by prior conspiracy,” the question of religious hatred in the indictment does not mention.

What is known Boris Nemtsov

Boris Nemtsov was born October 9, 1959 in Sochi. In September 1991 he was appointed the President of Russia in Nizhny Novgorod, in 1995 won the election of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod. In 1997, he became first deputy prime minister, from March to December, while he was Minister of Fuel and Energy, has been deputy chairman of the government commission on operational issues. In March 1998, he dismissed as part of the Cabinet of Ministers Viktor Chernomyrdin. Since April 1998 took the post of deputy prime minister in the government of Sergei Kiriyenko, but August, he tendered his resignation. Read more in Help RIA Novosti & gt; & gt;