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    ISKANDARYAN: NEMTSOV HAD POSED ABSOLUTELY NO THREAT TO RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES

    YEREVAN, March 2. /ARKA/. Alexander Iskandaryan, a political analyst
    and the head of the Caucasus Institute, finds it difficult to point
    out persons or organizations that might benefit from the killing of
    Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead Friday night in
    Moscow, but he is convinced that the opposition political activist
    posed absolutely no threat to the Russian authorities.

    "It is clear that the radical opposition activists will accuse Putin,
    'regime' and so on... But it is hard to believe this, since 'regime'
    or Putin have no reasons to kill him. Mr. Nemtsov poses absolutely no
    threat to 'the regime' and it is also impossible to say that he was
    a political alternative," Iskandaryan was quoted by Novosti-Armenia
    as saying in an interview with Sputnik-Armenia.

    In his opinion, is would be also wrong to say that Nemtsov was killed
    by 'the opposite side'.

    "This killing will make Nemtsov a symbol of anti-Putin rhetoric,
    but it will be unable to change political things," Iskandaryan said.

    "Nothing significant can happen, since the public niche occupied by
    Nemtsov (it can't be even called political) is extremely narrow for any
    political change, and it means neither 'regime' not Putin have grounds
    not only to kill him, but also to notice what is spoken in this niche."

    Iskandaryan also finds it difficult to imagine any overseas conspiracy,
    since it was impossible to achieve any political goal by this crime.

    He thinks the person who has ordered the killing didn't belong to
    the group of high-level decision-making people.

    Commenting on such a vigorous reaction to this crime in Armenia,
    the expert said it showed how underdeveloped is political discourse
    in the country.

    He said that sometimes developments in other countries, especially
    in Russia, are not considered as internal affair of that country.

    "Very often Russia is mentioned on Armenia's political arena despite
    this has nothing in common with Russia.

    This is an uncut cord and failure to differentiate outside and inside
    things. And this black-and-white picture leads to immature discourse,"
    Iskandaryan said in his interview.

    In his words, this is a widespread disease. he said.

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