On his visit to Russia in February 1994 Britain’s then prime minister, John Major, strayed from the customary itinerary of official meetings in Moscow and traveled 300 miles east, to Nizhny Novgorod, to see a rare success story in a struggling Russian economy. Here, in a onetime Soviet industrial backwater closed to foreigners, a young governor named Boris Nemtsov led an ambitious programme of liberal reforms, attracting investment, promoting trade and creating a new middle class of farmers and small business owners.
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A woman passes by floral tributes at the site where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was fatally shot on a bridge near the Kremlin, in Moscow on Jan. 10, 2018.
