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Boris Nemtsov was born. He was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, deputy prime minister, founder of the Union of Right Forces, initiator of the Solidarity movement, and co-chairman of the PARNAS party. He authored reports on corruption in Russia and was an outspoken critic of the Putin regime.
Censorship is when an official knows that no matter what he does, he will not be exposed.
Studied in Gorky. Gold medalist. Radiophysicist. Developed a way to improve spacecraft antennas and invented the acoustic laser. According to Nobel laureate Vitaly Ginzburg, he was "a truly talented physicist."
I am happy that I can speak the truth, be myself and not grovel before the pathetic, thieving authorities. Freedom is expensive.
He entered public life in the late 80s. His mother, a pediatrician, collected signatures against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Gorky. Physicist Nemtsov published an article, "Why I'm Against the Nuclear Power Plant." The plant was never built.
Democracy is the right of citizens to elect their government and to oust it when it fails. Democracy is the right of citizens to criticize their government. Democracy is the right of citizens to information and an independent judiciary. We need democracy, not the Americans.
In 1990, he became a people's deputy of the RSFSR. He met Yeltsin, who appointed Nemtsov head of the Nizhny Novgorod administration in 1991. In 1995, Nemtsov was elected governor with almost 60% of the vote. He was renowned as a reformer, and his experience in restructuring the region's economy was recommended for national implementation.
Reforms begin where money ends
In 1997, he joined the Russian government. At the time, almost a third of Russians wanted to see him as president. Yeltsin chose someone else.
In my early childhood, Yeltsin wanted me to be his successor, but then he changed his mind and made Putin his successor. That was his biggest mistake.
In 2013, he supported the Euromaidan movement. After the annexation of Crimea, he sharply criticized Russia's policy towards Ukraine.
The war with Ukraine is a crime that has no statute of limitations… This is Putin’s war for his power and money.
He was shot dead on February 27, 2015. on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. The person who ordered the murder has not been found.
