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The life of Boris Nemtsov

Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed in a drive-by shooting in Moscow on February 27. He was walking near the Kremlin, when an unidentified man shot him at least four times, killing him on the spot.

Nemtsov was among Russia’s most prominent liberal politicians. His entered politics in 1991, when he was elected governor of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region. After six years, he joined the Yeltsin Administration as deputy prime minister, serving in this role from 1997 to 1998. He later won a seat in the Duma, before leaving the parliament to join the opposition and become a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. Meduza recalls the many milestones of Boris Nemtsov’s political career.

Photo: Alexei Venediktov twitter account Boris Nemtsov with his daughter, Zhanna, in the mid-1980s.

Photo: Dmitry Kosolapov / TASS / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov with his wife and daughter in Nizhny Novgorod, October 10, 1996.

Photo: TASS / Scanpix Governor Nemtsov with the economist Grigoriy Yavlinsky in Nizhny Novgorod, December 30, 1992.

Photo: Nikolay Nikitin / TASS / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov as deputy prime minister during a working visit to Samara, May 1997.

Photo: Chumichev / TASS / Scanpix Governor Nemtsov agrees to join the government as a deputy prime minister at a meeting with President Boris Yeltsin, March 17, 1997.

Photo: Valeriy Matitsyn / TASS / Scanpix Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov during a visit to a mine in Russia’s Rostov region, May 22, 1998.

Photo: Alexander Nechayev / TASS / Scanpix Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov in Baikonur, meeting with cosmonauts before a launch, August 13, 1998.

Photo: Boris Kavashkin / TASS / Scanpix Nemtsov at a concert in Moscow’s Red Square sponsored by his party, the Union of Right Forces, August 29, 1999.

Photo: Boris Kavashkin / TASS / Scanpix Nemtsov with colleague Irina Khakamada at a concert in Moscow, August 29, 1999.

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant Irina Khakamada, Boris Nemtsov, and Pavel Krasheninnikov in the Russian Duma, March 20, 2003.

Photo: Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Boris Nemtsov with Yulia Timoshenko and Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, January 23, 2005.

Photo: Andrey Sidorov / Interpress / PhotoXPress Nemtsov is detained at an opposition rally in St. Petersburg, November 25, 2007.

Photo: Viktor Klyushkin / TASS / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov at his campaign headquarters before the Sochi mayoral election, April 26, 2009.

Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix Nemtsov is detained at an opposition rally in Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square, August 2, 2010.

Photo: Artyom Korotaev / TASS / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov as co-chairman of the Solidarnost (Solidarity) movement at an opposition rally in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, April 16, 2011.

Photo: Valeriy Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix Nemtsov speaking at an opposition rally in Moscow, December 24, 2011.

Photo: Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Oppositionists Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin, Evgenia Chirikova, and Alexey Navalny in Moscow during the Million Man March, which ended in clashes with the police, May 6, 2012.

Photo: Alexandra Krasnova / TASS / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov as co-chairman of the People’s Freedom Party with Alexey Navalny and his wife at an event in Moscow to support the defendants in the Bolotnoye Case (which targeted more than two dozen protesters arrested at the Million Man March), August 25, 2012.

Photo: Anna Solovieva / RIA Novosti / Scanpix Boris Nemtsov at a rally in Yaroslavl, September 5, 2013.

Photo: Nikolay Moshkov / TASS / Scanpix Governor Boris Nemtsov above Nizhny Novgorod in a hot air balloon during a test flight with the traveler-balloonist Valentin Efremov, March 23, 1996.