Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Немцо́в Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈt͡sof]; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician. He had a successful political career during the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin. Since 2000 had been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
Life
Nemtsov studied physics, and held the equivalent of a Phd in physics and mathematics, from the university of Nizhny Novgorod, which was called Gorki at the time.
Death
On February 27, 2015, Nemtsov was shot several times by for his pro-democracy views on Russia as a loyalist of Vladimir Putin, on a bridge near the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine at age of 55. His girlfriend was the sole eyewitness of the attack but she was unharmed. [2]
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