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Opposition leader you just mentioned who just by the way was released from prison and you are vowing to avenge the death of your comrade, boris nemtsov, what are you thinking about these five arrests that have been made christopher? >> i think anybody who has associated with nemtsov is likely to feel that these arrests are credible or if they're credible there is this twist. i mean if you've got the head of chechnya putin's man in chechnya coming out and saying he admires one of these guys and this guy was motivated to do it because of the charlie hebdo issue and then you start to think maybe ...

Saying that you don't believe this is in any way tied to the kremlin? >> it could -- it could be because he's liberal, because he's jewish because chechnya and driven by theories. let's don't forget the boston bombing. the russians warned us about that. that movement is very active and very supportive of isis and very supportive of those attacks in france. it is a possibility, but there's no good evidence out there. >> chris? >> i mean i think there's a lot of psychological game playing being done by whoever was behind this and one of the things that you have in a place like russia is a situat...

Somehow, it's the country that the united states has to deal with on a geopolitical level. >> absolutely. coming back to this point and putin has always sold himself despite the anti-americanism and despite the fever swamp of conspiracy theories that america and the cia and the state department have been to blame for the world's evils and he's sold himself as an indispensable partner on a host of issues. >> terrorism. >> he became president because he was the strong man who pacified chechnya. >> final word chris? >> well i think if we look at the way putin operates look at the way he operates ...

Nemtsov, one man who russian authorities tried to arrest blew himself up and thatta cording to russian state. our matthew chance is in moscow this evening. >> police have named the suspect who killed himself as beslan shavanov a 30-year-old man from the chechen capital grozny according to state television. the building in which he'd been hiding was surrounded and there was a fire fight with the police. when he detonated a hand grenade that killed him. meanwhile, here in moscow investigators say they have now at least five suspects under arrest in connection with the killing of boris nemtsov, o...

And all from chechnya, what do you make of these allegations? >> as we talked about, poppy. it's the usual suspects. >> right. >> if you can assassinate somebody in russia you go to chechnya and it doesn't matter who you are, whether you're islamic fundamentalist, a foreigner or the government and these people will confess to anything and i don't think we're any closer to knowing who killed nemtsov than the day he died. there is no transparency in any of this and frankly, again, i would say i just can't imagine why putin would risk an assassination like this outside the kremlin when he could h...