Boris Nemtsov
| Boris Nemtsov | |
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| Борис Немцов | |
Nemtsov in March 2014
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
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In office 28 April 1998 – 28 August 1998 |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Prime Minister |
Sergey Kirienko Viktor Chernomyrdin (acting) |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
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In office 17 March 1997 – 28 April 1998 Serving with Anatoly Chubais |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Preceded by |
Vladimir Putin Alexey Bolshakov Viktor Ilyushin |
| Succeeded by |
Yuri Maslyukov Vadim Gustov |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov 9 October 1959 Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 27 February 2015 (aged 55) Moscow, Russia |
| Political party |
Union of Right Forces (1999–2008) Solidarnost (2008–2010) People's Freedom Party (2010–2012) RPR-PARNAS (2012–2015) |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
| Awards |
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (second degree, 1995); Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Fifth degree, 2006, Ukraine); Order of Liberty (Ukraine, posthumously); IRI Freedom Award (the US, posthumously). |
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Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Немцо́в; IPA: [bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈtsof]; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, statesman and liberal politician. Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of capitalism into the Russian post-Soviet economy. He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, and since 2000 had been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015 on a bridge near the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. He was shot four times from the back. Nemtsov's conflict with Vladimir Putin's government, based on Nemtsov's criticism of what he perceived as an increasingly authoritarian, undemocratic regime, was centered more recently on the widespread embezzlement and profiteering ahead of the Sochi Olympics, as well as on Russian political interference and military involvement in Ukraine. Since 2008, Nemtsov had been regularly publishing in-depth reports detailing the corruption under Putin, which he connected directly with the person of the President (see "Political publications"). 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". In the weeks before his death, Nemtsov expressed fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have him killed.
At the time of the assassination, Nemtsov was in Moscow helping to organise a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis. At the same time, Nemtsov was working on a report demonstrating that Russian troops were fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, which the Kremlin had been denying. An open involvement would damage Putin's government not just externally, but also within Russia, where such policy has been shown by opinion polls to be highly unpopular. At the time of his death, Nemtsov held the following political positions: elected member of the regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast since 2013, and since 2012, co-chair of the RPR-PARNAS, which is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, a Pan-European political party; he was one of the leaders of the Solidarnost ("Solidarity") opposition movement.
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