article_snippet: Whether Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov offended by attacking the authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin's regime, the jingoistic imperialism of Vladimir Putin's Ukrainian campaign or even the massacre of journalists at Charlie Hebdo, it comes to the same thing in the end: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov stood up consistently for the values of the Western Enlightenment against the Western Enlightenment motley army of enemies.
article_snippet: Born in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov began as an atomic physicist but rose to prominence in the early 1990s as the reformist governor of Nizhny Novgorod province.
article_snippet: What a stubborn nature," President Boris Yeltsin wrote of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was the first person President Boris Yeltsin anointed as Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov political successor.
article_snippet: After Vladimir Putin's's election in 2000, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov hoped at first that President Boris Yeltsin would keep President Boris Yeltsin promise to restore order while preserving democracy.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a natural politician -- emotional, gregarious, articulate.
article_snippet: Some snickered at Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's extravagant personality, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov hints of bravado and weakness for the fairer sex.
article_snippet: But Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov determination and talent commanded respect.
article_snippet: And when the Levada Center polled Russians in 2013, 6% approved of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov actions, while 48% disapproved and 46% claimed to know nothing about Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov titled Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov first book of memoirs, "The Provincial," but to true provincials Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov looked like the elite.
article_snippet: As one analyst told me, when Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov turned up at far-flung rallies in a sparkling, immaculately ironed, white shirt, it symbolized the class divide between Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov audience.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov understood this.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said, in Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov last interview, when the host tried to tease out of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov a confession of presidential ambitions.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's doggedness during the last decade -- plugging away despite public indifference or scorn -- makes it the most impressive chapter of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov career.
article_snippet: Not shrinking from arrest, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov spent more than a few nights in holding cells.
article_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov refused to slacken.
article_snippet: Shut out of national politics, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov ran for mayor of Sochi -- and got 13.6% of the vote.
article_snippet: Undeterred, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov won a seat as deputy in the Yaroslavl Regional Council.
article_snippet: Swallowing Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov pride, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov battled on because Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov cared about Russia and because, well ... politics was what Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov did.
article_snippet: Hardly a radical revolutionary, Nemtsov cooperated with the authorities to avoid violence by moving the site of the first major Moscow demonstration in December 2011, and Nemtsov participated in discussions with then-President Dmitry Medvedev about reforms of the political system.
highlights_snippet: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was courageous, talented but had had little support in Russia since '90s .