Vladimir Kara-Murza: Inaugural Nemtsov prize awarded to Lev Shlosberg
A man lays flowers on June 13, 2016 at the spot where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in central Moscow.
On June 12—Russia’s national day that has its origins in a 1990 parliamentary declaration that asserted Russia’s sovereignty over the Soviet government and promised its citizens political rights and liberties—the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom held its inaugural ceremony to award the Nemtsov Prize.