Nemtsov asked the head of the FSB to initiate a case against Chechen militants

In 2014, the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov demanded to initiate a case against militants from Chechnya who transported weapons to Ukraine. The chairman of the Moscow branch of the RPR-Parnas Ilya Yashin published a request from the murdered co-chairman of the FSB head Alexander Bortnikov on his Facebook. Nemtsov with reference to RBC and Newsru.ua wrote Bortnikov about the intersection of the Russian-Ukrainian border on the night of May 27, 2014 by a Chechnya group with ammunition and explosives. The oppositionist wrote that on the Russian border, border guards did not resist the movement of militants. At the same time, he noted, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that militants relate to illegal armed groups and are not related to the republic’s soldiers. In this regard, Nemtsov asked the head of the FSB whether criminal cases were instituted on the fact of illegally crossing the Russian border, smuggling of weapons and illegally wearing firearms. The document was handed over to the head of the investigative group investigating the murder of Nemtsov. According to Yashin, this document could be the reason for the murder of a politician. The co-chair of the RPR-Parnas party Boris Nemtsov was killed in the late evening of February 27. Five alleged killers were arrested on March 8. The sixth suspect blew himself up with a grenade during the detention in Grozny. One of the accused is the former employee of the Chechen battalion North Zaur Dadaev. Earlier, the New Gazeta wrote about the existence of a “shooting list”, in which, in addition to Nemtsov, were TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, the head of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov and oppositionist Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the publication, the FSB managed to calculate the murder performers. In this regard, according to the “new” information, the security forces began a conflict with Kadyrov. The context of the murder of Nemtsov was recognized as political alleged murderers Nemtsov complained about torture, the witness spoke about inconsistencies in the murder of Nemtsov