Boris Nemtsov | |
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Борис Немцов | |
 Nemtsov in 2014 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
| In office 28 April 1998 – 28 August 1998 | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Prime Minister | Sergey Kirienko Viktor Chernomyrdin (acting) |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
| In office 17 March 1997 – 28 April 1998 Serving with Anatoly Chubais | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Preceded by | Alexei Bolshakov Viktor Ilyushin Vladimir Potanin |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Kiriyenko |
| 1st Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | |
| In office 30 November 1991 – 17 March 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Petrovich Sklyarov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 October 1959 Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 27 February 2015 (aged 55) Moscow, Russia |
| Manner of death | Assassination |
| Political party | Union of Right Forces (1999–2008) Solidarnost (2008–2010) People's Freedom (2010–2012) RPR-PARNAS (2012–2015) |
| Spouse | Raisa Ahmetovna (separated) |
| Children | 4, including Zhanna |
| Awards | Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (second degree, 1995); Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Fifth degree, 2006, Ukraine);[1] Order of Liberty (Ukraine, posthumously);[2] IRI Freedom Award (the US, posthumously).[3] |
Other offices held
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Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov[a] (9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy.[4] In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia movement.[citation needed] In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (1990), Federation Council (1993–97) and State Duma (1999–2003).
From 2000 until his death, he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. He criticized Putin's government as an increasingly authoritarian, undemocratic regime, highlighting widespread embezzlement and profiteering ahead of the Sochi Olympics, and Russian political interference and military involvement in Ukraine.[5][6] After 2008, Nemtsov published in-depth reports detailing the corruption under Putin, which he connected directly with the President. As part of the same political struggle, Nemtsov was an active organizer of and participant in Dissenters' Marches, Strategy-31 civil actions and rallies "For Fair Elections".
Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow,[7][8] with four shots fired from the back.[9] At the time of his assassination, he was in Moscow helping to organize a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis. At the same time, he was working on a report demonstrating that Russian troops were fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, which the Kremlin had been denying, and was unpopular externally but also in Russia.[10] In the weeks before his death, he expressed fear that Putin would have him killed.[11][12] In late June 2017, five Chechnya-born men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles (US$253,000); neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is officially known.[13]
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- ^ Zimmerman, Malia (4 March 2015). "Crossing the Kremlin: Nemtsov latest in long line of Putin critics to wind up dead" , Fox News.
- ^ Amos, Howard; Millward, David (27 February 2015). "Leading Putin critic gunned down outside Kremlin". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ^ Kramer, Andrew E. (27 February 2015) "Boris Nemtsov, Putin Foe, Is Shot Dead in Shadow of Kremlin" Archived 28 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times.
- ^ Birnbaum, Michael; Branigan, William (28 February 2015). "Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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- ^ "Фигуранты дела об убийстве Немцова осуждены на сроки от 11 до 20 лет". РАПСИ (in Russian). 13 July 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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