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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] .
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. [9] . An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol.
Boris Nemtsov was a leading figure in the opposition movement for free-market economics and democratic social reforms in postcommunist Russia and an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was assassinated near Red Square in February 2015.
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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...
Feb 28, 2015 · MOSCOW — Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, was shot dead Friday evening in central Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in...
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,...
Jun 29, 2017 · MOSCOW — A Russian jury convicted five men on Thursday in the 2015 assassination of Boris Y. Nemtsov, the opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, but his family called the ...
