The children of Boris Nemtsov today are doing the most to preserve the memory of this famous and extraordinary politics. The personal life of the hero of our article was full, he has five officially recognized children. But the most famous is his daughter Jeanne, a popular public figure and TV presenter.
Politician Nemtsov
The children of Boris Nemtsov today keep a memory of their father, despite the fact that most of them have different mothers. It is worth recognizing that Nemtsov himself is one of the most prominent politicians in modern Russia. In the early 90s, he entered the young team of President Yeltsin, made a dizzying career, and held key positions in government. Many considered him the official successor of Boris Yeltsin as head of state. They say that Yeltsin himself treated him better than many others.
In the 2000s, he was in opposition. But here he made his way to the forefront. He regularly participated in protests against the current government. In 2015, he was shot dead almost in the very center of Moscow. Many consider him a political victim of the regime.
The youngest governor
Boris Efimovich Nemtsov became famous throughout the country in 1991, when he headed the Nizhny Novgorod region. Shortly before this, during the August coup, he openly supported Boris Yeltsin. He repaid him kindly.
When the leadership of the State Emergency Committee was dismissed, Yeltsin appointed Nemtsov as the head of the region. In many respects, this decision was dictated by the fact that he was a new person, practically did not know anyone in this area. The politician was only 32 years old. Everyone then remembered the president’s words that he appoints such a young man as governor for only two months, and if he doesn’t manage, he will take it off. Nemtsov coped.
Moreover, in 1995 already in the popular elections of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the hero of our article confirmed his high position. Already in the first round, he enlisted the support of almost 60% of voters.
At that time, he earned the reputation of a reformer; during his reign, he implemented several programs in the region.
Work in the government of Russia
In 1997, the career of Boris Efimovich Nemtsov went up. This happened after Yeltsin in his annual address to the Federal Assembly criticized the work of the Chernomyrdin government. After that, leaving the prime minister in his post, he made significant changes to the structure and composition of the cabinet.
Chubais became the first Deputy Prime Minister with extended powers. Nemtsov was appointed another deputy prime minister. And he had to be persuaded to leave the Nizhny Novgorod region. This role was played by the daughter of the head of state Tatyana Dyachenko, who met several times with a politician to convince him to go to work in the government.
Nemtsov was given the responsibility to carry out reforms in the social sphere and housing and communal services, to deal with issues of antitrust and housing policies, to coordinate the work of individual executive bodies. For example, the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, the Federal Energy Commission and others.
He was not able to stay long as deputy prime minister. In 1998, a default occurred in the country, the government of the new Prime Minister Kiriyenko was dismissed. According to media reports, Yeltsin then personally called Nemtsov, saying that he was not involved in the failure and could remain working with him until 2000. But the hero of our article refused.
In August, he filed for resignation.
Nemtsov in opposition
Nemtsov began his independent political career in the Union of Right Forces party along with Irina Khakamada and Sergei Kiriyenko. In 1999, they supported Putin in his appointment as prime minister. He later admitted that this decision was erroneous.
He won the elections to the State Duma in one of the constituencies in Nizhny Novgorod.
At the next elections in 2003 he ran for the top of the list of the Union of Right Forces. But the party was not able to overcome the 5 percent barrier needed to get into parliament. After the defeat in the election, Nemtsov resigned as leader of the SPS.
After that, his political career developed rapidly, he was always in sight. At the 2008 presidential election, SPS nominated him for the presidency of Russia, but he refused, supporting Mikhail Kasyanov. In 2009, he participated in the election of the mayor of Sochi. He took second place, gaining about 13.5% of the vote.
Since 2010, he regularly participates in non-systemic opposition rallies, has repeatedly been detained for participating in unauthorized political rallies. The author of several expert reports is “Putin. Results”, “Putin. Corruption”, “Putin. Life of a slave in galleys. Palaces, yachts, cars, planes and other accessories”, “Winter Olympics in the subtropics” and others.
In 2013, he won the elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma from the party "RPR-Parnas".
Assassination politician
Boris Nemtsov was killed on February 27, 2015. Almost in the very center of Moscow - on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge. From this place the Kremlin was visible.
Killer shot the politician six times - in the back and head. At that time, 23-year-old Ukrainian Anna Duritskaya was with him. They say that this was Nemtsov’s last love. They met for three years. The question of who killed Boris Nemtsov immediately appeared in all news feeds.
The killer turned out to be Zaur Dadaev, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Together with him, four of his accomplices were convicted.
First marriage
Now more about his personal life. His first wife was Raisa Akhmetova. She was three years older than him. In 1984, their daughter Jeanne was born.
In the 90s, the couple officially broke up, lived separately, even in different cities, but did not officially divorce for a long time.
Zhanna Nemtsova
The daughter from her first marriage remains so far his most famous and public child. And this is not surprising. She is a journalist, public figure, worked as a TV presenter on RBC. In 2015, she left Russia. Currently lives in Germany, works as a reporter for the Russian editorial office of the famous German television company Deutsche Welle.
Since 1997, she lived in Moscow, after Nemtsov was appointed first deputy prime minister. Having studied one quarter in the capital's school, I arbitrarily returned to Nizhny Novgorod. She returned to Moscow only a year later at the insistence of her parents.
After receiving secondary education, she studied at an American university, and later entered MGIMO. Zhanna Nemtsova received a specialty "management". Under the influence of the mother, she began to show interest in the stock market. For many years he has been successfully investing in shares of domestic companies. Emigrated from Russia shortly after the murder of her father. Through social networks, she began to receive numerous threats.
She began her career as a journalist when she was 14 years old. At the Ekho Moskvy radio station, she worked as an assistant to the news anchor. In the early 2000s, she was engaged in promoting the site of the SPS party, led by her father.
Since 2007, she worked at RBC. Many remembered her interview with her father, in which Nemtsov recalled previously unknown details. For example, the circumstances of the visit to Nizhny Novgorod by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when he was governor there.
In 2016, she released a book of memoirs and memoirs called “Awaken Russia”. After the murder of her father, her rhetoric became anti-government. In May 2015, she spoke in Berlin with the so-called “Speech on Freedom”. Basically, she talked about propaganda in state media, condemned the information campaign, which, in her opinion, was launched in Russia against Ukraine, and also criticized the creation of the image of the enemy from the United States.
Personal life of Boris Nemtsov
In total, Nemtsov has five officially recognized children. Two children were born to him from the journalist Ekaterina Odintsova. He met her and began dating while still living in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1995, a son was born to Boris Nemtsov. He is currently studying at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2002, they had a daughter, Dina, who is still a schoolgirl.
After Odintsova’s relationship with Nemtsov became close, the journalist moved to Moscow and began working as a TV presenter.
