Boris Nemtsov

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцóв; 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, and since 2000 had been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. In February 2015, while in Moscow where he was helping organise a rally against Putin’s policies regarding Russian involvement in the war in Ukraine and the financial crisis in Russia, he was shot dead less than 200 metres from the Moscow Kremlin walls and Red Square.