Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
The Economist: Boris Nemtsov’s parting shot
One of the co-chairmen of the opposition People's Freedom Party, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov (L), and opposition activist Ilya Yashin (R) attend a presentation of the independent expert report \u201cPutin. War\u201d in Moscow, on May 12.
At the end of December 2014 Boris Nemtsov, a Russian liberal politician, strode into the offices of his small independent political party and announced that he had a brainstorm. His plan was to write a report entitled "Putin. War", print huge numbers of copies, and distribute them on the streets. The only way to defeat the regime's militarist propaganda, he explained, was "to tell people how Putin started this war". He looked about victoriously at his colleagues, as he did whenever he was struck by a good idea.
