Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov ( ; 9 October 195927 February 2015 ) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician . Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of capitalism into the Russian post-Soviet economy . He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin . From 2000 until his death , he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin . Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015 , beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya , on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow , with four shots fired from the back . In the weeks before his death , Nemtsov expressed fear that Putin would have him killed . In late June 2017 , five Chechen men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles ( US$ 253,000 ) ; neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is known
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Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov