Boris Nemtsov was killed

On Friday evening, February 27, in the center of Moscow, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead. He was 55 years old.

“The unknown shot Boris Nemtsov in the center of Moscow on the Vasilyevsky descent with four shots from a pistol. An investigation group is working at the site of the murder, ” TASS was told in law -enforcement agencies.

According to REN TV sources, the crime occurred on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge - at about 23:40 Moscow time (according to the Investigative Committee - at 23:15 Moscow time), Nemtsov was shot several times from a white car. The city has been announced in the city.

“Killed a few meters from the Kremlin, in a zone protected and removed from all points. - wrote on Twitter the editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov. “This means that there is a video of the murder.” He also clarified that they shot in the back.

“I have no doubt that the murder of Nemtsov is connected with his opposition political activity,” the politician Ilya Yashin, the comrade -in -arms of Boris Nemtsov, who was personally present at the crime scene, said on the air of the Echo of Moscow.

Boris Efimovich Nemtsov was born in Sochi in 1959, studied at the Faculty of Gorky State University, worked in research institutes, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, author of more than 60 scientific works in quantum physics, thermodynamics, acoustics.

In March 1990, he was elected People's Deputy of the RSFSR in the Gorky National-Territorial District. During the presidential election in 1991, Boris Nemtsov was a confidant of Boris Yeltsin in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the same year he was appointed head of the administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in 1995 - elected the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

In the spring of 1997, Boris Nemtsov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, in 1997-1998 he also held the positions of the Minister of Fuel and Energy and a member of the Security Council.

At the end of 1999, together with Sergey Kiriyenko and Irina Khakamada, he headed the list of the Union of Right Forces (ATP), was elected deputy of the State Duma, held the posts of Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, a member of the State Duma Committee and the leader of the ATP faction, was one of the co -chair of the ATP party, and in 2008 became one of the creators and leader The United Democratic Movement "Solidarity", in 2012-the co-chair of the Party of the RPR-Parnas.

Since 2011, Boris Nemtsov took an active part in organizing mass protests in Moscow, in the fall of 2012 he became a member of the coordination council of the opposition. In September 2013, he was elected deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma.

During the Crimean crisis, Russia sharply criticized Russia for its foreign policy in relation to Ukraine, in April 2014 he participated in the Kiev Congress “Ukraine - Russia: Dialog”.

In the fall of 2014, he signed an application with a request “to stop an aggressive adventure: to withdraw Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine and stop propaganda, material and military support to armed supporters of self -proclaimed DPR and LPR”.

Boris Nemtsov was one of the organizers of the anti -crisis march "Vesna", appointed on March 1.