PR firms at the service of human rights abusers

On 28 February 2015, the night that leading Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated, Vladimir Putin's press spokesperson Dmitry Peskov deflected accusations that the Kremlin was involved by saying: “…in political terms he did not pose any threat to the current Russian leadership or Vladimir Putin. If we compare popularity levels, Putin's and the government's ratings and so on, in general Boris Nemtsov was just a little bit more than an average citizen.” With the (…)