Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in Moscow today. Nemtsov served as a deputy prime minister and a regional governor in the 1990s under previous Russian president Boris Yeltsin, and advised Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko after Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” in 2004. More recently, he emerged as one of the leading domestic critics of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In 2000, Nemtsov viewed Putin as “Russia’s best bet” for continuing the political and economic reforms Yeltsin intiatiated. But Nemtsov, who was one of Russia’s highest-profile liberals, grew into one of Putin’s most dogged opponents. He was arrested for organization …read more
Source: Business Insider
