Boris Efimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцóв; born 9 October 1959) is a Russian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 1997 to 1998. He was a co-founder of the Russian political party Union of Rightist Forces and is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
Boris Nemtsov was born on 9 October 1959 in Sochi to Jewish parents, Efim Davidovich Nemtsov and Dina Yakovlevna Eidman. In his autobiography, Nemtsov recounts that hi...
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Boris Efimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцóв; born 9 October 1959) is a Russian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 1997 to 1998. He was a co-founder of the Russian political party Union of Rightist Forces and is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
Boris Nemtsov was born on 9 October 1959 in Sochi to Jewish parents, Efim Davidovich Nemtsov and Dina Yakovlevna Eidman. In his autobiography, Nemtsov recounts that his Russian Orthodox grandmother had him baptized as an infant, something Nemtsov, now a practicing Orthodox Christian, found out many years later. From 1976 to 1981 he studied physics at Gorky State University, and in 1985 received a Ph. D. in Physics and Mathematics, defending his dissertation at the age of 25. Until 1990 Boris Nemtsov worked as a senior scientist at the Gorky Radio-Physics Research Institute (Горьковский научно-иссследовательский радиофизический институт, НИРФИ).
In 1986, in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, Nemtsov...
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