This is a blog for use in both of my HIS 241 and HIS 242 Russian history survey courses at Northern Virginia Community College.

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04 March 2015

Boris Nemtsov

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find any positive news these days from Russia, and the murder of Boris Nemtsov (1959-2015) does not make it any easier.

1 comment :

Igor said...

There has been some news about the arrest of men connected to the Chechen strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, and all kinds of guessing about the nature of the relationship between Putin and Kadyrov. See the article in The Guardian or the Newsweek article, Who Really Killed Boris Nemtsov?