Person    | Male  Born 9/10/1959  Died 27/2/2015

Boris Nemtsov

Categories: Politics & Administration, Science, Tragedy

Countries: Russia

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov 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.

Deputy Prime Minister of Russian under Boris Yeltsin. From 2000 until his death he led opposition to and openly criticised Vladimir Putin's government. He labelled it a dictatorship, exposed government corruption and stood up against military interventions in Ukraine.  He was assassinated on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow, with four shots fired from the back.

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