Split

On December 16, Parnassus was a split in the Parnas party: a number of famous politicians left it, among whom Ilya Yashin, Vadim Prokhorov, Nadezhda Mityushkin - all of them were close colleagues of Boris Nemtsov, killed in February 2015. According to NT, a number of regional departments will also come out of Parnas. The reason is disagreement with the party leadership. The current split is not the first in the history of the party, but he once again confirmed how much a role in the opposition movement was played by Boris Nemtsov, who served as a unifying figure for a wide variety of political activists, rallying under the name Parnas - a party of folk freedom. “Too Free Man” - the so -called the last film, shot about Boris Nemtsov and shown in December at the Festival of Documentary Films “Artdokfest”. In this film, the authors and their interlocutors emphasized: many of us underestimated Nemtsov, did not realize how much he played in the life of the Russian opposition. Today it is obvious: not one of those who claimed the role of a leader could replace Nemtsov. Will Alexey Navalny be able to. But it is obvious that the party Parnassus of the murder of Nemtsov did not survive. The party symbol is a bull. This bull today is seriously wounded if - not defeated.

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