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Boris Nemtsov
13 quotes
“People in power remind me of people who find themselves in a room with windows and doors, where a huge number of microbes are flying. Sooner or later, the people in power deteriorate, simply because immunity is lost over time, and at some point you get infected with something. Elections and independent press are nothing more than opening those windows and airing the "corridors of power.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Nizhny Novgorod's local government magazine (January 1995)
“I actually expect to live in Russia, so I care about what happens here.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Kommersant (18 February 1997)
“We have few truly patriotic and smart candidates, and those few are busy figuring things out with each other. During the last elections various coalitions were possible, though none of them came to be - everybody was on their own. It is ridiculous.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Kommersant (18 February 1997)
“First things first, for many years I've steadily supported the unification of the opposition, but right now I have to say that Jews are more likely to find an agreement with Arabs than for us with Yavlinsky — it's an assessment based on the results of our discussion. It's sad, but true.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Gazeta.Ru (29 August 2007)
“The Magnitsky Act is the most pro-Russian law ever passed by a foreign legislature.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Kremlin revives a Soviet-style law against dissent" (18 May 2018), by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, The Washington Post
“When we in Russia establish law and order, when the country has an established independent judiciary, I will be the first to go to Brussels and Strasbourg and lobby for the law to be repealed, because we will deal with our scoundrels ourselves, and we won’t need any Magnitsky Law.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elena Servettaz (April 2013)
“[I]n Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elena Servettaz (April 2013)
“The system always breaks down in Russia when irreconcilable contradictions develop within the ruling clan.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elena Servettaz (April 2013)
“This isn't your war... It’s Putin’s war for power and money.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 2014, as quoted in "‘It’s Putin’s war for power and money’ What the Nemtsov Report says about the Russia’s role in Ukraine’s war" (13 May 2015), by Andrey Kozenko, Meduza
“I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report "Putin. War", publish it in huge numbers and hand it out on the streets. We will tell how Putin unleashed this war. That's the only way to defeat propaganda.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Nemtsov Report Details Human and Financial Costs of War in Ukraine" (12 May 2015), The Moscow Times
“[T]he truth is that Putin is war and crisis.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facebook post (31 January 2015)
“Vladimir Putin would have voted for Yanukovych. He's fucking crazy, Vladimir Putin, just so you understand.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had I held a high position within the government, I'd gather big russian bussiness and give them a strict order: to buy up Sevastopol property under government guarantees. Then the talks surrounding the Black Sea fleet would take on a very different form: it's difficult to ignore investors. Interestingly enough I've received a large amount of offers from Sevastopol enterprises wishing to be bought by Russian capital. I am confident that that is a much more reliable path than shaking the air by statements like "we will never give up an inch of Russian land". Historical justice must be restored by capitalist methods.”
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Kommersant (18 February 1997)