ON THE night of February 27th 2014, Russian soldiers without insignias—soon to be known as “little green men”—seized the parliament of Crimea. It was the start of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its war against Ukraine. Exactly a year later, Boris Nemtsov, a leader of Russia’s liberal opposition, was shot dead on a bridge by the walls of the Kremlin. A few days earlier Mr Nemtsov had been handing out leaflets for a March 1st anti-war rally. The march turned into his memorial procession.
Mr Nemtsov’s postcard murder, with the cupolas of St Basil’s church in the background, marks the return …read more
Source: The Economist
