More than 100 people attended the rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Nizhny Novgorod April 7, 2015 – Nizhny Novgorod

(NIA “Nizhny Novgorod” – Irina Shvetsova) More than 100 people attended the rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Nizhny Novgorod April 7, 2015. This is the correspondent NIA “Nizhny Novgorod” present at the event.

At 09:00 about boats “Hero” on the Lower Volga embankment city residents gathered to honor the memory of the first governor of Nizhny Novgorod. Among them were public figures, journalists, bloggers, some came to the flash mob with children. According to the organizers, all the action involved about 120 people, they are lined up in the word “Fight”.

Let’s remind, on April 7 marked the 40th day since the death of Boris Nemtsov. At 10:20 a memorial service will be held at the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin; 11:00 – All-Russian action “Minute NEmolchaniya” after it on the ground near the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael will be released into the sky white doves; 17: 30-19: 30 (high Intercession, and 51 – in front of the cinema “October”) – A rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov under the motto “Nizhny Novgorod remember”.

The former governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Boris Nemtsov killed in the night of February 28 in Moscow at the Bolshoi Moscow River bridge. According to this criminal case. According to preliminary data, the unknown (or unknown) fired several shots in the back Nemtsov and fled the scene. Wounds politician died. Boris Nemtsov Troekurov buried at the cemetery in Moscow on March 3.

BACKGROUND:

 Boris Nemtsov was born October 9, 1959 in Sochi. Since 1967, lived in Nizhny Novgorod (formerly – the city of Gorky). In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Radiophysics Gorky State University. Lobachevsky, then worked at the Gorky Research Institute of Radio Physics. In September-December 1991 was the representative of the Russian President in the Nizhny Novgorod region. In December 1991 he was appointed head of the regional administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region in 1997 – First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation, from March to December 1997, while he was Minister of Fuel and Energy Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government on operational issues. In August 1998, after the resignation of the cabinet Kiriyenko finally resigned from the executive branch. In his later years he was co-chairman of a political party “Republican Party of Russia – People’s Freedom Party” (RPR-Parnassus). In September 2013 regional elections reelected to Yaroslavl Oblast Duma of the sixth convocation.

He was awarded the medal “For Services to the Fatherland” II degree (1994). In 2009 he was awarded the honorary title of the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod region “Merit”.

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