by CBBSS | Feb 28, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Russia analyst, journalist and author, Michael Weiss, writes in the Daily Beast that murdered politician Boris Nemtsov was working on an expose of Russian military involvement in Ukraine. Two years ago, Nemtsov released a report detailing the billions of dollars that...
by CBBSS | Feb 28, 2021 | International News and Analysis
RFERL runs an in-depth obituary of Boris Nemtsov, whom attackers shot dead near the Kremlin late Friday night. The obit chronicles Nemtsov’s rise in Russian politics, during which he was seen as a possible successor to then-president Boris Yeltsin, as well as...
by CBBSS | Feb 28, 2021 | Regional News
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics was the first European leader to react to the killing of Putin critic and former deputy prime minister of Russia, Boris Nemtsov. Rinkevics tweeted that Russia must convict a swift, non-partial investigation and provide...
by CBBSS | Feb 27, 2021 | Regional News
Less than 48 hours prior to an anti-Putin march in Moscow that he was helping organize and promote, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in Moscow. Nemtsov served as deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin and has since been a vocal critic of Putin....
by CBBSS | Feb 27, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Writing in World Affairs blog, the prominent U.S. expert on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Alexander Motyl, argues that if Russia does not win big in Ukraine it will lose in the final analysis and gives his reasons why it will lose. One of the reasons is that the...
