Three years ago, the politician was killed on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, Moscow

Press Release, 27.02.2018

Russian presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko party Chair Emilia Slabunova and leader of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, by the Kremlin.

Grigory Yavlinsky said, “Vladimir Putin bears political responsibility for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, because Nemtsov was his principled political opponent.

The murder of Boris Nemtsov shows the inability of Russian special services to protect a statesman. The authorities’ refusal to consider the murder of Boris Nemtsov as the murder of a statesman once again shows that the present system of power is trying to do everything possible to forget about this terrible event.

Boris Nemtsov was a person who personified all that happened in Russia after 1991: the strive of our country for freedom, for a modern state, so that people would be respected, and so that people would respect their own country. Nemtsov put a lot of energy on this and gave his life for it.

Boris Nemtsov was a prominent representative of a new generation of Russian politicians. He was courageous, open and loyal to his ideals.

In addition, the murder of Nemtsov testifies to the atmosphere of hatred, intolerance and aggression created in Russia, and he became its victim. They killed Boris Nemtsov so that to sow fear and show what could happen to anyone and anywhere, if people were brave enough to tell the truth about what was happening in Russia beyond [the scope of] what Putin wanted to hear.”