FINANCIAL TIMES: In an interview with the Financial Times last week, he acknowledged the difficulty of his cause but nevertheless remained tireless in promoting it. “Three years ago we were an opposition. Now we are no more than dissidents,” he said. That made his struggle all the more remarkable — and heroic.
Deprived of any official political position in recent years and marginalised by the state media, Nemtsov campaigned by handing out one leaflet at a time on the metro. He was frequently in the front line of any demonstrations and was just as often arrested.
In speaking out against state corruption and the Kremlin’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, Nemtsov was denounced as a traitor on state television. Posters of him and his supporters were hung in central Moscow accusing them of being a “Fifth Column”… (more)
Sad to see this kind of political violence. This killing does not make a lot of sense to me. Nemtsov did not seem like much of an electoral power any more, who benefits from his killing?
KZ