NEW YORK TIMES: ….The question now is whether the opposition will be able to pivot off the death to assert a role in the country’s political life, or to sink further into obscurity and irrelevance.
“They find themselves at a crossroads,” said Aleksandr Pozhalov, a political scientist and research director at the Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Research here. “The murder of Nemtsov must make the democratic opposition of Moscow reconsider its strategy, starting with their relations with each other.”
Over the years, the liberals splintered into at least half a dozen political parties working under a plethora of confusing, forgettable names but lacking any distinct identity. Because they never got past the leadership battles to agree on a common platform, experts said, about their only shared position was “Dump Putin!”… (more)
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