Boris Nemtsov

  • Foreign affairs

Vilnius opens square named after slain Russian opposition leader Nemtsov

A small square outside the Russian embassy in Vilnius, named after murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was officially opened…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Square named after Nemtsov to be officially opened in Vilnius

A square outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius, named after murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov will be officially opened…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Square named after Nemtsov to be officially opened in Vilnius

A square named after murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov will be officially opened in Vilnius later this week. [...]

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Nemtsov honored in Vilnius as local Russians celebrate culture day

A plaque naming a square outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius after democrat and the Kremlin's critic Boris Nemtsov, murdered…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Russian ambassador calls decision to name Vilnius park after Nemtsov as ‘aping’

Russia's ambassador to Lithuania describes Vilnius' decision to name a park in front of the Russian embassy after murdered Russian…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Russia’s decision to complicate Lithuanian MP’s work on his report to PACE – formin

An entry ban imposed on Moscow on Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris will complicate his work on a report for the…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Russia bans entry to Lithuanian PACE rapporteur for Nemtsov murder case

Emanuelis Zingeris, a Lithuanian lawmaker appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a special rapporteur…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Public garden in front of Russian embassy in Vilnius named after Boris Nemtsov

A public garden in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius' Žvėrynas neighborhood has been named after Boris Nemtsov, a…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

It is time to commemorate Boris Nemtsov in Vilnius

Andrei Sakharov, the great Russian physicist, humanist and Nobel Prize winner, once remarked that a government that violates the rights…

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s pivotal role in the struggle for democracy

What an extraordinary thing Lithuania is doing – the initiation of a process of national awakening and democratic renewal at…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Panel suggests no rush with Kaczynski’s, Nemtsov’s commemoration in Vilnius

A Vilnius commission in charge of names has suggested taking it slowly with commemoration of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski…

7 years ago
  • Politics

Vilnius mayor wants square next to Russian Embassy named after Russian democracy

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has proposed naming a square next to the Russian Embassy after Russian democracy. [...]

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s Zingeris picked as Council of Europe’s Parliament Assembly rapporteur

Lithuania's conservative MP Emanuelis Zingeris has been appointed as the rapporteur of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly for the…

8 years ago
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Putin’s Russia. The situation is gradually changing

The Russian parliamentary (Duma) elections on September 18 do not promise any major changes. Opinion polls and the general atmosphere…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian thinkers weigh in on importance of Russian opposition forum in Trakai

At a press conference in Trakai following the annual Russian opposition forum, Lithuanian commentators shared their insights into the results…

9 years ago
  • Society

Forum of Russian opposition figures opening in Trakai

Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians…

9 years ago
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Lithuanian MP invited to join council of late Boris Nemtsov’s foundation

Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris has been appointed to the council of the international Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom. [...]

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Vilnius may name square after murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov

Vilnius politicians have unanimously backed an idea, proposed by the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats' political group, to name…

9 years ago
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Karen Dawisha: Signs of rift within Putin’s kleptocracy

Back when the future president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, was still working at the Mayor's Office of Saint Petersburg, shiny…

9 years ago
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Probe into Russian opposition leader Nemtsov murder extended until November

The Russian Investigative Committee has extended the investigation of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's murder, the lawyer of Nemtsov's family Vadim…

9 years ago