The speaker of the Polish Senate , Bogdan Borusewicz , said that Nemtsov " fell victim " to " a chauvinistic campaign against people who do not agree with imperialistic policies and aggression against a neighbouring country . " Leonid Bershidsky of the '' Bloomberg View '' stated that " In recent months , Putin 's propaganda machine has been vigorously inciting Russians against the ' fifth column ' – those who protested against the annexation of Crimea and the Kremlin-instigated war in eastern Ukraine . Nemtsov was on every list of traitors published on the Internet and aired on state TV . " In '' The Daily Telegraph '' , Ben Judah wrote that the Kremlin " either ordered or allowed Nemtsov 's murder to happen " , saying that " Nothing Boris Nemtsov did was not bugged , tailed , filmed or monitored by the secret police . It is quite simply impossible that this man could have been shot dead without the Kremlin knowing there was a plot afoot to kill him . " Some saw parallels with the murder of Sergey Kirov in 1934 . Brian Whitmore , writing for '' Radio Free Europe '' , stated that the murder indicated the development of a " hybrid Great Terror campaign " against Putin 's opposition
Great Terror
Great Purge
Assassination of Boris Nemtsov