Nemtsov Square in Washington. Why is it insulting for the Kremlin?

Boris Nemtsov. Photo: Oleg Dyachenko / TASS

Senator Oleg Morozov, who worked in the Kremlin by the head of the Department of Internal Policy and told after the resignation that he had repeatedly accepted his old friend Boris Nemtsov in his office, now, commenting on the appearance of Nemtsov Square in Washington, writes that the Americans seem to say to Nemtsov: we will use the dead you. Protection from posthumous speculation is one of the competing versions of the official Russian reaction to the decision of the Washington authorities, and it does not seem convincing. Such assumptions always sound speculatively, but usually they are used when it comes to some artist, poet or actor: "If Vysotsky had not died, would he support Putin?" - That is, about the people of mysterious and contradictory, and Boris Nemtsov was anywhat, but certainly not mysterious - all in sight, and the subjunctive inclination is quite applicable to him. It seems obvious that if some other critic of the Kremlin was killed three years ago in Moscow, now instead of Vladimir Kara-Murza in the Washington City Council, Boris Nemtsov would probably have performed that the renaming of the intersection of the Russian embassy will become an excellent symbol of the fact that there is another, good Russia, in addition to Putin. But to introduce Nemtsov opposing the renaming, because it is more like posthumous use for political purposes is much more difficult, so Oleg Morozov is obviously wrong.

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