WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A US Senate resolution requesting responsive measures for the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is intended to deliver a message, but implementing its recommendations would require additional legislation, US Senator Jeanne Shaheen told Sputnik.
“In my mind [this resolution] sends a message to all of those supporters of Boris Nemtsov about how we feel in Congress” about his political activities and his murder, Shaheen said on Thursday of the resolution she cosponsored.
However, the measures suggested in the resolution “would take additional legislation” to implement, she added.
Shaheen noted that the purpose of the resolution was to express the need for an investigation and holding someone accountable for Nemtsov’s murder. “And hopefully that sends a message as well to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Russia,” she said.
The resolution was introduced less than a week after Boris Nemtsov was murdered and passed unanimously out of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
An investigation into the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is currently underway in Russia. Shortly after the tragedy, President Putin assigned a multi-agency team comprised of the Russian Investigative Committee, the Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service to investigate the crime. The Russian authorities have charged two suspects with the murder.
