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“I am a witness to all these events in Russia. If it had not happened for the terrible thing that happened, I think Russia would be a completely different country. I am also Russian, I am married to a Lithuanian, I am between these two countries. Therefore, we are following a lot what is happening there, we are having a lot of time, ”said retired Nina, who brought flowers to B. Nemtsov’s portrait on Saturday.
He said that when he went to Moscow, he always tried to participate in the marches in memory of B. Nemtsov and did not lose hope that Russia would change.
“I have no words, I have no comment,” he said, asking how he valued the imprisonment of Alexei Navaln, another opposition leader who had also been tried to assassinate.
Former associates of B. Nemtsov, public activists, as well as representatives of the country’s opposition movements fighting the Alexander Lukashenko regime in Belarus and several Lithuanian politicians met at the Russian embassy on Saturday.
According to one of the event organizers, Ivan Tiutrin, executive secretary of the Free Russia Forum, there are currently several people living in Vilnius who knew B. Nemcov personally and worked with him.
According to Tiutrin, the murder of B. Nemtsov has not been investigated so far, the perpetrators of this murder outside the Kremlin have not been identified.
“No one believes in the Russian investigation, I hope that the time will come when all the circumstances of Nemtsov’s assassination are made public,” Tiutrin said in a statement on Saturday.
“Whoever the perpetrator is is obviously a political assassination, and considering the realities of Putin’s dictatorship, it is clear that this assassination could not have taken place without knowledge and without coordination with the first man of the state, Putin,” said the former Nemtsov’s companion.
Seimas member E. Zinger, who knew B. Nemcov personally for many years, reiterated on Saturday that an international investigation into the murder of B. Nemtsov was necessary.
“The client of the murder is the Russian government, we demand an international investigation, we bow our heads against a great European who has seized the culture of European Russia, who has the right to speak on behalf of Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, it has the right to represent the great culture of European Russia. The people of the Kremlin, after their actions against the Russian nation, have no right to represent this prominent Russian people, “said E. Zinger in the campaign in Vilnius.
According to him, B. Nemtsov is “this is Russia, this is freedom, this is Europe, this is benevolent relations with our neighbors, this is respect for the Russian Russians, this is the end of freedom in Russia.”
Petras Auštrevičius, the MEP who participated in the commemoration, said that due to the abundance of problems related to the Vladimir Putin regime, the topic of the investigation into the murder of B. Nemtsov had become secondary, but not forgotten.
According to the MEP, it is currently important to help all Russian citizens persecuted by the Kremlin regime
‘B. Nemtsov was a symbol that Russia could be quite different, European, democratic. It was a high, even, I would say presidential, political and his words, his thoughts, give hope that change in Russia is still a matter of time. I am more optimistic about politics. Of course, it may take time, but the death of Boris does not allow us to forget what else we have to do to bring about these changes and help the Russians, who want to take a completely different path, “P. Auštrevičius told reporters.
One of Russia’s fiercest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin was shot dead near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015.
In 2017, a former Chechen security officer was convicted by a court of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Four more men were found guilty of complicity. However, Nemtsov’s family and allies believe that the true perpetrators of the murder remain unpunished.
To commemorate B. Nemtsov, in 2018, the Vilnius city municipality named a small square near the Russian embassy in the name of a murdered politician.
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