Boris Nemtsov

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov 9 October 1959 27 February 2015 was a Russian physicist and liberal politician He was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian postSoviet economy In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 199197 Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy 1997 Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998 In 1998 he founded the Young Russia movement In 1998 he cofounded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999 he coformed Union of Right Forces an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of Peoples Deputies 1990 Federation Council 199397 and State Duma 19992003 From 2000 until his death he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin He criticized Putins government as an increasingly authoritarian undemocratic regime highlighting widespread embezzlement and profiteering ahead of the Sochi Olympics and Russian political interference and military involvement in Ukraine After 2008 Nemtsov published indepth reports detailing the corruption under Putin which he connected directly with the President As part of the same political struggle Nemtsov was an active organizer of and participant in Dissenters Marches Strategy31 civil actions and rallies For Fair Elections Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015 beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow with four shots fired from the back At the time of his assassination he was in Moscow helping to organize a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis At the same time he was working on a report demonstrating that Russian troops were fighting alongside proRussian rebels in eastern Ukraine which the Kremlin had been denying and was unpopular externally but also in Russia In the weeks before his death he expressed fear that Putin would have him killed In late June 2017 five Chechnyaborn men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles US253000 neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is officially known Description above from the Wikipedia article Boris Nemtsov licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia