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Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader 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. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Later he worked in the govern…
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Born 9 October 1959 · Died 27 February 2015 · Q363846
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s Sobesednik news website that his 87-year-old mother was afraid Putin would kill him. He added that his mother was also afraid for oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. When asked if he himself was afraid for his life, Nemtsov answered:
“s Sobesednik news website that his 87-year-old mother was afraid Putin would kill him. He added that his mother was also afraid for oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. When asked if he himself was afraid for his life, Nemtsov answered:”
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“opposition meetings following the fraudulent March 4 election”
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Yahoo: Moscow court orders arrest of slain Putin critic Boris Nemtsov's daughter
Awarded Order of Liberty presented by Petro Poroshenko (2015).
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Capital Public Radio: Boris Nemtsov: 'He Directed His Words Against Putin Himself'
Died 2015-02-27.
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“I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report "Putin. War", publish it in huge numbers and hand it out on the streets. We will tell how Putin unleashed this war. That's the only way to defeat propaganda.”
“[I]n Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas.”
“When we in Russia establish law and order, when the country has an established independent judiciary, I will be the first to go to Brussels and Strasbourg and lobby for the law to be repealed, because we will deal with our scoundrels ourselves, and we won’t need any Magnitsky Law.”
“The Magnitsky Act is the most pro-Russian law ever passed by a foreign legislature.”
“First things first, for many years I've steadily supported the unification of the opposition, but right now I have to say that Jews are more likely to find an agreement with Arabs than for us with Yavlinsky — it's an assessment based on the results of our discussion. It's sad, but true.”
“We have few truly patriotic and smart candidates, and those few are busy figuring things out with each other. During the last elections various coalitions were possible, though none of them came to be - everybody was on their own. It is ridiculous.”
“I actually expect to live in Russia, so I care about what happens here.”
“People in power remind me of people who find themselves in a room with windows and doors, where a huge number of microbes are flying. Sooner or later, the people in power deteriorate, simply because immunity is lost over time, and at some point you get infected with something. Elections and independent press are nothing more than opening those windows and airing the "corridors of power.”
“The system always breaks down in Russia when irreconcilable contradictions develop within the ruling clan.”
“(13 May 2015), by Andrey Kozenko, Meduza I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report”
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Nemtsov appealed to the Russian armed forces to stop the invasion of eastern Ukraine At any moment you may be sent (and some have already been sent) to fight in Ukraine
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Career landmark: Yaroslavl Oblast Duma (2013).
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“Everyone is unhappy with Putin, save perhaps his closest friends.”
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“s decision to run for president again”
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“done everything it could to resolve”
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“s 26 April election. As a Sochi native, he had criticized plans to hold the 2014 Winter Olympics in the town. He believed it was this criticism which led Nashi members to attack him with ammonium chloride on 23 March 2009. In a March 2010 interview, Nemtsov criticized the decision to hold a Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying that Putin had”
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Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov published several white papers criticising Putin's government and proposing alternative ways of development for the country:
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Career landmark: Participated in Visiting Dmitry Gordon (tournament / event).
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Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class presented by Viktor Yushchenko (2006).
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His name appeared on a list of several individuals the hostage-takers during the Moscow theater hostage crisis were willing to speak to directly
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Won Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (2001).
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2000–2003).
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Nemtsov was reappointed Deputy Prime Minister, but resigned shortly afterwards when Yeltsin dissolved the government
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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
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Career landmark: Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (1998–1998).
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Career landmark: Security Council of Russia (1997–1998).
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Career landmark: Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997–1997).
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Career landmark: First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (1997–1998).
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Awarded Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude (1996).
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Awarded Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow (1996).
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Nemtsov brought Yeltsin a petition with one million signatures against the First Chechen War, which he had signed himself
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Won Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords (1995).
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Career landmark: Participated in Odin na odin (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: member of the Federation Council of Russia (1993–1997).
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Career landmark: Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997).
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Nemtsov unsuccessfully ran for the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies on a reform platform which for the time was quite radical, promoting ideas such as multiparty democracy and private enterprise
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Nemtsov organized a protest movement in his hometown which effectively prevented construction of a nuclear-fired boiler plant in the region
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Defended his dissertation for a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of Gorky
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Studied at Faculty of Radiophysics, Nizhny Novgorod State University (1976).
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Born 1959-10-09.
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To Yefim Davidovich Nemtsov and Dina Yakovlevna Nemtsova (née Eidman)
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