Obituary : Boris Nemtsov

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Obituary | The Ruler Who Never Was; Boris Nemtsov, leader of Russia’s reformers, was shot dead on February 27th, aged 55. Economist, Mar 7, 2015.
www.economist.com/news/obituary/ ... -27th-aged-55-ruler

Note:
(a) "In the 1980s he was a physicist in Gorky, where Andrei Sakharov was exiled * * * Nor was he a communist. * * * when [Boris] Yeltsin later appointed him governor of Nizhny Novgorod (previously Gorky), he persuaded the president to make that job an elected office also."
(i) Boris Nemtsov
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov
(1959-2015; Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was born in Sochi in 1959 to Yefim Davidovich Nemtsov and Dina Yakovlevna Nemtsova (née Eidman);
(ii) Nizhny Novgorod
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod
(with a population of 1,250,619, the fifth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast; 400 km east of Moscow; Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1868 as Alexey Maximovich Peshkov [city was renamed Gorky 1932-1990]
(iii) Nizhny
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhny
(Russian, "literally meaning 'lower'")
(iv) Nizhny Novgorod
wikitravel.org/en/Nizhny_Novgorod
(Its name literally means Newtown the Lower, to distinguish it from the older Novgorod)

(b) "In 1997 he was persuaded to leave Nizhny Novgorod * * * to go to Moscow as Yeltsin’s [co-first] deputy prime minister [1997-1998; Chubais was the other co-first deputy PM; both under PM Viktor Chernomyrdin]. He held the job with Anatoly Chubais, another reformer, and together they dazzled Yeltsin with the prospect of a new country. As a state [ie, federal] official, though, Mr Nemtsov gave himself no airs. Gone was all that balderdash about the sacred mystique of the Russian state; journalists had his mobile number and called him Boris, without his patronymic [Yefimovich, his father's first name being Yefim]."

Eastern Slavic naming customs
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(c) "At last Yeltsin dropped him, and in 1999 Mr Putin got the job he [Nemtsov] had been meant to have."
(d) "A passionate wind surfer, he knew there was no wave to ride—until, a year later, the first Orange revolution broke out on the Maidan in Kiev."

Orange Revolution
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
(2004-2005; Orange was originally adopted by the Yushchenko's camp as the signifying colour of his election campaign; Viktor Yushchenko opposition won residency)