This is personal. The killer was slavish.
…In 1993, Gorbachev came to Nizhny to meet with the residents and the Governor. Nemtsov, unlike other regional heads, did not hide from the disgraced Mikhail Gorbachev, took him to the trade fair, fed on bear meat in some merchant's restaurant, was laughing, boasting, invited to see his place, the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, where they tilted with each other in my presence. Gorbachev: Well say, Boris, who is to blame in all this mess (it's about the crisis in the country. — D. M.) ?