A year without Nemtsov

Merry Moscow Friday almost turned on Saturday. A happy easy time - you can relax. Do not think at least not long about work. To forget about everything unpleasant-after all, there is always enough around some troubles. Time for optional conversations, for a glass of wine, and at least even for sleep.

And then suddenly. It was precisely the blinding “suddenly” - the incredible news from the phone to the phone. Replicas on social networks. “It doesn’t happen”, “this simply cannot be” ...

But it was. On February 27, 2015, at 23.31 Moscow time, Boris Nemtsov was killed a few hundred meters from the Kremlin on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, a few hundred meters from the Kremlin. They shot in the back.

A custom -made murder of a policy of this scale is an unusual thing for the new Russia. But not only this is the matter. Immediately a thought got into my head - here it is? Cheerful, cheerful, brave, able to somehow savor life in a special way? This does not happen. It simply cannot be. Nemtsov and death - these words did not want to become nearby.

And flowers were already carried to the bridge. And then, on March 1, tens of thousands of confused, unable to believe in the incident of people - those who were going to go to the anti -crisis march “Spring” on this day, and those who were not going to go out into the street. We went under Russian flags from Kitay-Gorod to the place where he was killed. Nemtsov was one of the organizers of the failed march "Spring". The city hall did not agree on the procession in the center, imposed an outskirts of Maryino. But he still managed to gather people in the center. True, an incredible price.

A year has passed. The investigation, as reported by the head of the RF IC, Alexander Bastrykin, is completed. Contractors are waiting for courts, these customers are inviolable. And to joke about the future reprisals of the dissatisfied state of affairs in the country is almost a good tone among those who are satisfied with the state of affairs.

In recent years, Russia rolled up in the dark times quite rapidly, and everyone, probably, who lived in Russia in these years, can place their milestones on this path. But the murder of Nemtsov is a common milestone. A year ago it became clear: they can kill for a civil position. The murder since then is also an element of political discussion in Russia. Though there are some doubts in power. No wonder the number one politician said during the traditional press conference: "This is not a fact that a person needs to be killed."

And even during this year, either the janitors sent by the mayoralians, then some slurred "activists" once after time removed flowers from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge. As if if you remove them, and the very fact that a person was killed will cease to be a fact.

But the person was killed, but the bridge is still flowers.