Press Release, 27.02.2023

Yabloko honoured the memory of Boris Nemtsov who was murdered by the Kremlin walls on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, on 27 February 2015.

Today, on the eighth anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the leaders and activists of Yabloko came to the scene of the tragedy – the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. The “Nemtsov Bridge” people’s handmade memorial became a place of mourning for those who knew Boris Nemtsov, and those who, like Nemtsov, did not want war.

“We come to the place where Boris Nemtsov was murdered every year. Today we came here with special feelings – a feeling of bitterness that we could not save our country from the shocks in which it is now. And with a sense of hope that we will still be able to achieve peace and stop killings of people,” Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said.

Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, stressed that the murder of Boris Nemtsov was demonstrative.

“It was virtually a public execution for the fact that Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should not be at war with anyone. Russians should not kill Ukrainians. Ukrainians should not kill Russians. For this, in the end, he was killed. To keep everyone else quiet. So that everyone else is afraid,” Yavlinsky commented. “Certainly, the President and the entire leadership of the country bear political responsibility for such murder. As well as for the death of every Russian person. Eternal memory to Boris Nemtsov. Eternal memory to all those killed.”