The Russia that died with Boris Nemtsov

February 28, 2015 12:19

For years, Moscow insiders have reacted to former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov's philippics against President Vladimir Putin with a roll of the eyes.

Everyone knew what Nemtsov was going to say. The man Boris Yeltsin almost piсked as his successor had become irrelevant, marginalized.

Now Nemtsov's criticism of Putin's Russia has been validated in the most terrible way. Tonight, the opposition politician was killed a few hundred yards from the Kremlin, shot at least four times as he crossed a bridge over the Moskva River.

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