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    Boris Nemtsov

    Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician

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  1. Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (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.

  2. Mar 28, 2022 · Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead, an investigation has found. Nemtsov was...

  3. On 27 February 2015, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated as he crossed the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in central Moscow at 23:31 local time. An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol. Four of them hit Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing ...

  4. Boris Nemtsov (born October 9, 1959, Sochi, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died February 27, 2015, Moscow, Russia) was a leading figure in the opposition movement for free-market economics and democratic social reforms in postcommunist Russia. After the rise of Vladimir Putin to the country’s presidency, Nemtsov became one of Putin’s most visible and ...

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  5. Feb 27, 2015 · Just after midnight on Friday, Boris Nemtsov, a fifty-five-year-old Russian opposition politician, was gunned down as he walked across a bridge just outside the Kremlin walls. A car drove past,...

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  6. Feb 28, 2015 · A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say. An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov...

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  8. Feb 29, 2020 · Thousands of people protested in Moscow against constitutional reforms and demanded justice for the 2015 killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Mr Nemtsov was a former deputy prime minister and a prominent Kremlin critic who opposed Russia's involvement in Ukraine.

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