For those who knew him, the photo of Boris Nemtsov dead on the Moscow Bridge, just yards from the Kremlin walls, is heartbreaking. For Russians who remember the heady days of the early 1990s when anything seemed possible — days which Nemtsov once symbolized as much as any single public figure could — it would be a harsh reminder of how dark and dimmed those dreams have become.
But for those who still believe in Russia’s democratic opposition to one-man rule orchestrated by hyper-patriotic nationalism that had seemed to cow and marginalize the diminishing number willing to protest, Boris Nemtsov’s violent …read more
Source: iPolitics
