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A memorial service for Boris Nemtsov began at 10:00 am and will last until 14:00 The funeral will be held at 15:30 policies on Troekurov cemetery.
at the farewell ceremony came to a few thousand people. In this case, a memorial service will not be sustained – the people who came to the Sakharov Centre, warned that simply do not have time to Nemtsov all.
Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that he would like to see at the farewell ceremony Nemtsov “political leaders parties, or our political system remains limited, flawed. ” Kudrin recalled how he met with Nemtsov in 1997 – then they “take a long and pensions.” “He pressed the” Gazprom “and we have $ 2 billion, and paid all debts. Since there was no debt. By the end of 1998, he did so that all energy companies pay taxes in full. This is underestimated, “- said the former head of the Ministry of Finance.
Among those who came to the ceremony of farewell was the widow of the first Russian president Naina Yeltsin. She noted that Nemtsov was not like today’s politicians – they are all boring, but it is joyous, easy man, “she pointed it at the fact that the Germans looked like Boris Yeltsin.
At the memorial service came many former and current members of the government, politicians and public figures. Among those who came today in the Sakharov Center – Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, head of the government staff Sergei Prikhodko, associates Nemtsov on RPR-Parnas Ilya Yashin and Mikhail Kasyanov, a spokesman Dmitry Medvedev Natalia Timakova, Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov, Minister of Relations ” Open Government “Michael Abizov, head of” RUSNANO “Anatoly Chubais, head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, the head of Sberbank German Gref, co-owner of” Alfa-Group “Mikhail Fridman and others.
to attend the ceremony and some foreign diplomats, including US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft and the EU representative Vygaudas Usackas.
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