Преемник. История Бориса Немцова и страны, в которой он не стал президентом

"Preemnik. Istorii͡a Borisa Nemt͡sova i strany, v kotoroĭ on ne stal prezidentom" - politicheskai͡a biografii͡a Borisa Nemt͡sova, napisannai͡a zhurnalistom Mikhailom Fishmanom. Nemt͡sov prishël v obshchestvennui͡u zhiznʹ v kont͡se 80-kh godov, v razgar gorbachëvskoĭ perestroĭki, v 90-kh stal gubernatorom Nizhegorodskoĭ oblasti, sdelal stremitelʹnui͡u karʹeru, i odno vremi͡a Elʹt͡sin videl v nëm svoego preemnika. V nulevykh on pereshël v oppozit͡sii͡u k vlasti, a 27 fevrali͡a 2015 goda byl ubit na Bolʹshom Moskvoret͡skom mostu naprotiv Kremli͡a. Nemt͡sov stal uchastnikom i svidetelem vsekh vazhneĭshikh sobytiĭ noveĭsheĭ rossiĭskoĭ istorii - ot pervykh svobodnykh vyborov i putcha 1991 goda do mitingov na Bolotnoĭ ploshchadi v 2011-2012 godakh i prisoedinenii͡a Kryma v 2014-m. Postroennai͡a na sotni͡akh intervʹi͡u, a takzhe arkhivnykh dannykh i memuarakh, ėta kniga - puteshestvie po rossiĭskoĭ istorii poslednikh tridt͡sati let. Prokhodi͡a vmeste s Nemt͡sovym vse osnovnye vekhi nedavnego proshlogo strany, avtor ishchet otvet na vopros: kak i pochemu Rossii͡a poteri͡ala obretënnui͡u ei͡u svobodu.

"The successor. The story of Boris Nemtsov and the country in which he did not become president" is a political biography of Boris Nemtsov written by journalist Mikhail Fishman. Nemtsov entered public life in the late 80s, at the height of Gorbachev's perestroika, in the 90s he became governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, made a rapid career, and at one time Yeltsin saw him as his successor. In the noughties, he joined the opposition to the government, and on February 27, 2015, he was killed on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge opposite the Kremlin. Nemtsov became a participant and witness of all the most important events in modern Russian history, from the first free elections and the 1991 coup to the rallies on Bolotnaya Square in 2011-2012 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Based on hundreds of interviews, as well as archival data and memoirs, this book is a journey through the Russian history of the last thirty years. Going through all the major milestones of the country's recent past with Nemtsov, the author is looking for an answer to the question: how and why Russia lost its freedom.