Boris Nemtsov

The place of the murder of Boris Nemtsov is visible from several video surveillance cameras, Moscow, February 28, 2015

Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 1995

Nemtsov accepts the proposal of President Boris Yeltsin to take the post of First Deputy Prime Minister, Moscow, March 17, 1997

First Deputy Chairman of the Government, 1997

“Nemtsov was shot. He is dead, ” - such an entry appeared on Twitter of the opposition policy of Ilya Yashin on 00.27 on the night of Saturday, February 28. The shots sounded in the very center of Moscow, a hundred meters from the Moscow Tower of the Kremlin. Boris Nemtsov and his companion walked along the large Muscovite bridge, along that pedestrian part that is closer to the Kremlin. Around 23.15, unknown people shot from a passing car, according to various sources, there were six or seven shots, four bullets hit Boris Nemtsov in the back, and were deadly. The police said that there were witnesses of the murder. As Ilya Yashin told NT from the scene of the crime, Nemtsov’s companion called him and said that they had shot him and he was killed. According to Yashin, Boris Nemtsov was going to write a report “Putin and War”, said that he had materials about the participation of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin is sure: the murder is political in nature.

Newcomer in the office of Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow, March 26, 1997

Deputy Prime Minister at the Oktyabrskaya-Yuzhnaya mine, Rostov Region, May 22, 1998

Yegor Gaidar and Boris Nemtsov - activists of the Right Business coalition, 1999

On the march of disagreements, St. Petersburg, November 25, 2007

In Avtosak, Moscow, August 2, 2010

By midnight, the place of murder was cordoned off, and the movement on the bridge was blocked. The Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev and the head of the Moscow police Anatoly Yakunin arrived at the crime scene.

At 1.25 nights, the assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs Elena Alekseeva approached numerous journalists and said that his acquaintance, a citizen of Ukraine, was with Nemtsov. The girl was not injured, she is interrogated.

At 1.30 at night, Interfax reported with reference to the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov: Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased and said that the murder "had all the signs of custom and is extremely provocative." On October 10, 2006, commenting on the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Putin said that the murder "in itself inflicts the current government in Russia and in the Chechen Republic, which she had been engaged in professionally recently, much more damage and damage than her publication."

About 1.40 the body of Boris Nemtsov was sent to the morgue.

On the evening of February 27, Boris Nemtsov was on his last, as it became clear later, on the air on the Echo of Moscow, in the 2015 program. Shortly before that, he gave a comment NT about the scenarios of a possible change in power in Russia ( see p. 24 ).

Just a week ago, the editor -in -chief of NT Evgenia Albatz talked with Boris Nemtsov: “Why are they planted all the time, but you are not touched, although you write more sharply and sharply about Putin, the Kremlin and Donbass?” He replied: “Because I was a deputy prime minister. You understand, they understand that sooner or later power will change, and they do not want to create a precedent for those who come to power later, and will begin to shoot those who served Putin. ”

Obviously, times have nevertheless changed, and Boris Nemtsov was wrong.

With Julia and Alexei Navalny, Moscow, May 2012

Two Boris - Nemtsov and Akunin, Moscow, December 2011 argue

Photo: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS, Chumichev/TASS, Nikolai Moshkov/ITAR-TASS, Vladimir Musaelian/ITAR-TASS, Interpress/ITAR-TASS, Alexander Danilyushin/ITAR-TASS, Anton Novoderezhkin/ITAR-TASS, Sergey Vdovin/ITAR-TASS, Alexander Krasnov/ITAR-TASS