Sergei Kapukhin/Reuters As remembrances poured in over the weekend for murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, writers appeared to mourn not just a man but a moment in Russian politics, when critics of President Vladimir Putin seemed to be at the height of their power. That moment, many acknowledged, had passed well before Nemtsov was shot four times in the back on Friday night. But his death, wrote Christian Caryl at Foreign Policy, “presages a grim new era of darkness in the country’s political life.” Nemtsov, who is to be buried Tuesday in Moscow, died a secondary figure in a …read more
Source: The Atlantic
