Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former Russian oligarch who was arrested by Putin’s police in 2003 and languished in prison for ten years, observed of Boris Nemtsov’s murder: “I think Boris… Read more »
MY FRIEND BORIS NEMTSOV Trailer from Antipode Sales on Vimeo. The film Nemtsov chronicles a remarkable political life, according to the Institute of Modern Russia: It is a story told by… Read more »
Last month, thousands of people held rallies and vigils in cities across Russia to mark the second anniversary of the murder of former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the… Read more »
In the shadow of the red brick Kremlin walls, an informal shrine marks the spot and the memory of Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and President Vladimir Putin’s loudest critic,… Read more »
One year after the public assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, General Alexander Bastrykin, has announced that the case has been “solved.” However,… Read more »
Boris Nemtsov, a former opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, was followed by an FSB agent linked to an assassination squad for almost a year before he was shot… Read more »
Three years ago, in February 2017, Vladimir Kara-Murza was rushed to a Moscow hospital, where he suffered massive organ failure, forcing doctors to place the Russian democracy activist on a… Read more »
Most protests and demonstrations in Russia now appear to be taking place in small and mid-sized cities, sometimes spreading to larger cities and ultimately to Moscow, notes Russia-watcher Paul Goble…. Read more »
Over the past decade and a half, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been an economic dynamo and a basket case, an imperfect democracy and a tightening tyranny, notes Foreign Affairs. The case of Boris Nemtsov provides… Read more »
The brazen murder of Boris Nemtsov and its subsequent investigation demonstrate the nature and fragility of the Russian political regime, analysts Lili Shevtsova and David Kramer write for the American… Read more »