Having marched in Moscow to honor slain Boris Nemtsov, people got up early on March 2 and went to work for the good of the state. Amazingly, many of my Ukrainian interlocutors saw the procession, comparable to a prisoners’ parade in the capital of a victorious empire, as the beginning of something new, maybe even a revolution. I have even heard the cliche notion “irreversibility of changes” used, which was in fact accurate, but only in the sense diametrically opposite to that intended by dreamers.
No, I do not think that they killed a possible leader of the opposition, a person able to organize and lead it, if not to victory, then out of its current miserable state at least. On the contrary, he was the one to lead it into a populist deadlock, as I warned seven years ago. Still, Nemtsov’s murder, even if it was a case of everyday violence, which definitely should not be excluded, will affect the situation in Russia in the most evil way.
