Boris Nemtsov
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Physicist who became a reforming deputy prime minister of Russia and then a leader of its opposition; assassinated within sight of the Kremlin in 2015
9 October 1959, Sochi, Russia — 27 February 2015, Moscow, Russia
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Boris Nemtsov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Physicist who became a reforming deputy prime minister of Russia and then a leader of its opposition; assassinated within sight of the Kremlin in 2015
Boris Nemtsov's mother, a physician, was Jewish. He took a doctorate in physics and published on acoustics and plasma before entering politics, governed Nizhny Novgorod through the reforms of the 1990s and served as a deputy prime minister of Russia. He spent his later years documenting corruption and opposing the war in Ukraine, and was shot dead on a bridge beside the Kremlin on 27 February 2015.
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Physicist who became a reforming deputy prime minister of Russia and then a leader of its opposition; assassinated within sight of the Kremlin in 2015
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