The CIA, of course, assassinated Nemtsov, knowing that their Stooges in the EU would think that Putin had done it,

But the American Gangster fashion in which it was perpetrated raised immediate doubts that Putin had anything to do with it.  Putin's remarks when he first heard of it, basically saying that it sounded like exactly the sort of false-flag operation that he has been warning his people might happen, seemed moderate and judicious, and his promising Nemtsov's mother, as he did today, that her son's murderer will be brought to justice was magisterial.  God, how his people must admire him, love and trust him!--while the leaders of the West, by comparison, look like howling, extra-legal barbarians.