He was cocky, he was brash, and he was boastful. He was charismatic, he was honest, and he was sincere. He cursed like a truck driver. And he was one of Russia’s most deeply human politicians. One thing you could could say about Boris Nemtsov is that he was real. What you saw was what you got.
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A woman holds a portrait of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov with a message which translate as "not to forget" during a memorial march on Feb. 26 in Saint Petersburg, two years after Nemtsov was gunned down just yards from the Kremlin. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister in the government of Boris Yeltsin, was gunned down shortly before midnight on Feb. 27, while walking across a bridge a short distance from the Kremlin with his Ukrainian model girlfriend.
