Boris Nemtsov: Difference between revisions

'''Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov''' ({{lang-rus|Борис Ефимович Немцов|p=bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈtsof}}; 9 October 1959{{spaced ndash}}27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and [[Liberalism in Russia|liberal]] politician. Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russian-opposition-leader-boris-nemtsov-reported-killed-in-moscow/2015/02/27/972e15f0-becb-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html|title=Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow|last1=Birnbaum|first1=Michael|last2=Branigan|first2=William|work=Washington Post|date=28 February 2015|access-date=1 March 2015|archive-date=17 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217213800/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russian-opposition-leader-boris-nemtsov-reported-killed-in-moscow/2015/02/27/972e15f0-becb-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President [[Boris Yeltsin]]. From 2000 until his death, he was an outspoken critic of [[Vladimir Putin]]. Nemtsov was [[Assassination of Boris Nemtsov|assassinated]] on 27 February 2015, beside his [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] partner [[Anna Durytska]], on a bridge near the [[Kremlin]] in [[Moscow]],<ref>Zimmerman, Malia (4 March 2015). [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/04/crossing-kremlin-nemtsov-latest-in-long-line-putin-critics-to-wind-up-dead "Crossing the Kremlin: Nemtsov latest in long line of Putin critics to wind up dead"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307014434/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/04/crossing-kremlin-nemtsov-latest-in-long-line-putin-critics-to-wind-up-dead/ |date=7 March 2015 }}, ''Fox News''.</ref><ref name="telegraph1">{{cite news|last1=Amos|first1=Howard|last2=Millward|first2=David|title=Leading Putin critic gunned down outside Kremlin|work=The Telegraph|location=London|date=27 February 2015|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11441466/Veteran-Russian-opposition-politician-shot-dead-in-Moscow.html|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=7 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007071730/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11441466/Veteran-Russian-opposition-politician-shot-dead-in-Moscow.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with four shots fired from the back.<ref>Kramer, Andrew E. (27 February 2015) [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-russian-opposition-leader-is-shot-dead.html?_r=0 "Boris Nemtsov, Putin Foe, Is Shot Dead in Shadow of Kremlin"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728223320/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-russian-opposition-leader-is-shot-dead.html?_r=0 |date=28 July 2019 }}, ''The New York Times''.</ref> In the weeks before his death, Nemtsov expressed fear that [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] would have him killed.<ref name=Sobesednik/><ref name="BBC News 27 February 2015"/> In late June 2017, five Chechnya-born men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles (US$253,000); neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is officially known.<ref>[http://rapsinews.ru/moscourts_news/20170713/279322135.html Фигуранты дела об убийстве Немцова осуждены на сроки от 11 до 20 лет. Российское агентство правовой и судебной информации, 13 июля 2017 года.]</ref>