Boris Nemtsov: The Man Who Was Too Free
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 »
Tag: Boris Nemtsov
Putin critic falls into coma
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a leader of the Russian opposition who has been a vocal critic of what he calls a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies has fallen into a life-threatening… Read more »
Political violence in Putin’s Russia
The February 2015 assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was only the latest and most dramatic example of the political violence that has been central to the Putin… Read more »
Remembering courageous Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet, killed by car bomb in Kyiv
In the early hours of Wednesday, July 20, a car bomb in Kyiv took the life of a long-time NED friend, Pavel Sheremet. A journalist with the Kyiv-based Radio Vesti… Read more »
Reversing democracy’s retreat? Reasons to be hopeful
Democracy is being challenged today as never before since the end of the Cold War, notes Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy. Freedom House has recorded ten consecutive years… Read more »
Lawmakers call for Nemtsov killers to face justice
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 »
‘Solved?’: Investigating Boris Nemtsov’s Murder
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 »
Russian opposition battles disunity following Nemtsov’s killing
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 »
Honoring Nemtsov, a call for action
Thousands of people marched in honor of slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on February 27, one year after he was shot dead near the Kremlin. Five suspects have been charged… Read more »