Overnight to February 28 Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown Moscow. According to preliminary data, an unknown assailant made a few shots at Nemtsov when he was walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Nemtsov was a co-chair of the RPR-Parnas party. He had held a number of government positions in the 1990s. TASS recalls the developments in life and career of Russian opposition and state figure Boris Nemtsov in this gallery.
Life and career of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov
Overnight to February 28 Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown Moscow
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In 1991–1997 Boris Nemtsov was the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region
© TASS/Nikolay Moshkov Photo: Russia's president Boris Yeltsin and head of Nizhny Novgorod administration Boris Nemtsov, 1994
© ITAR-TASS/Alexander Chumichev In March 1997 Nemtsov was appointed first Deputy Prime Minister, responsible to reform of the energy sector
© TASS/Nikolay Moshkov Following the crisis in 1998, Nemtsov was forced to resign his position of Deputy Prime Minister. Photo: Boris Nemtsov during a meeting with the miners, 1998
© TASS/Valeriy Matytsin In August 1999 Nemtsov became one of the co-founders of the Union of Rightist forces, a new liberal-democratic coalition. Photo: Leaders of political organizations Boris Nemtsov, Konstantin Titov, Sergey Kiriyenko and Irina Khakamada after they signed a document on the establishment of the coalition Union of Right Forces, 1999
© TASS/Boris Kavashkin Photo: Leaders of the Union of Right Forces Irina Khakamada and Boris Nemtsov, 1999
© TASS/Boris Kavashkin In 2005-2006 Boris Nemtsov was an economic advisor to the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko
© TASS/Fedor Savintsev In 2009 Boris Nemtsov participated in mayor elections in Sochi, but came second with around 14% of the vote
© TASS/Viktor Klushkin Boris Nemtsov was a co-founder of the political opposition movement Solidarity with Gary Kasparov (left)
© TASS/Valeriy Sharifulin Photo: Boris Nemtsov at the rally of Solidarity movement
© TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov In September 2010, together with Vladimir Ryzhkov, Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Milov, Nemtsov founded the "For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption" party, which, later was transformed into the People's Freedom Party (abbreviated as Parnas)
© TASS/Maxim Shemetov In 2011-2012 Boris Nemtsov participated in organization of opposition rallies
© TASS/Ruslan Shamukov In 2013 he was elected to the regional parliament of Yaroslavl region
© TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov Overnight to February 28 Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown Moscow. According to preliminary data, an unknown assailant made a few shots at Nemtsov when he was walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
© TASS/Mikhail Japaridze Photo: People lay flowers at the spot on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead
© TASS/Sergei Fadeichev