Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?

Once again another Russian opposition leader has been assassinated right near the Kremlin and the whole world is very furious with this callous and cowardly act. The question I will like to ask is 'who sanctioned this assassination or who ordered the hit on Boris Nemtsov?' The Kremlin has come out to condemn this act and has promised to conduct a thorough investigation into it and also bring the culprits to book. This assassination bears the hallmarks of a Cold War hit.

Did some over zealous Kremlin official do this without the knowledge of President Vladimir Putin just to shut Nemtsov up once and for all? Or judging from how the hit was carried out, the victim was followed to the point where four bullets were pumped into his chest. Who was the Ukrainian lady he was walking with on that day and why was she there? Was this assassination carried out just to make President Putin look evil in the eyes of the international community if what is alleged to be going on in the Ukraine as being reported by some of the Western media houses? Also, what will President Putin gain by assassinating his fiercest critic whiles his approval ratings are at an all time high?

I smell a serious conspiracy in Boris Nemtsov's assassination and I have a hunch some external hands are involved. Why was that location picked? Why did the lady he was with when questioned denied seeing the assassins? I also suspect this was done to whip up popular discontent and protests against  the Russian government. What also baffles me is that such murders remain unsolved as the killers always cover their tracks and mop up every shred of evidence that will lead to their capture. This means that the hit was carried out by professional assassins. The truth about Nemtsov's murder will surely come out one day.

The World In Crisis

As i sit down and write this piece, i realized how fast the year 2014 has gone by, and we are left with only four more days for the year to end and we will be ushering in the year 2015. A lot has happened on the international scene and for that matter the global arena with all sorts of power play going on. But the highlights of 2014 to me will be the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with almost 239 passengers on board, Russia's annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian crisis and the alleged shooting down of another Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine also killing almost 300 innocent passengers. The shooting of unarmed blacks in the US could also be something worth mentioning as protests are seriously going on in some of the US cities to bring to the fore the senseless killings. The US Senate also released the much dreaded CIA Torture Report and the world was taken aback by the details of the report with some people calling for the officials in charge of such gross human rights abuses to be brought to book, but hey, who cares? Its the US the so called bastion of Western Democracy and they do as they please, so we just shut up and watch as the report gathers dust on the shelves.

In my opinion, coupled with other major events that took place in the year 2014, like the imposition of sanctions on Russia by the EU and the US the world is seriously in crisis. The reduction of the price of crude oil  on the world market is having far more repercussions  than it was imagined. The economies of some of the major OPEC countries is suffering as a result of this reduction. The Russian currency, the Rouble is in a serious decline and Nigeria's Naira is facing the same problem as the government had to devalue the currency. The sanctions imposed on Russia is also affecting the EU countries badly and it seems they do not want to admit it.

the year 2015 will definitely be a challenging year and we must all avoid plunging the world into a major crisis. Dialogue must be used to settle conflicts, human rights of people must be respected and the hypocrisy must end on the international scene. The world is truly and really is in a crisis judging by what went on during the year 2014.