Boris Nemtsov (55), former governor of Nizny Novgorod, former deputy Duma speaker, deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin and, more recently, an opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down last Friday night, February 27, in downtown Moscow, just a hundred meters from the Kremlin (see EDM, March 2). Tens of thousands protested Nemtsov’s slaying; his funeral was attended by foreign dignitaries, but not President Putin or Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (Interfax, March 3). In a telegram of condolences, Putin promised to find and punish the “organizers and executors of this foul and cynical crime” …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation