What Nemtsov's Murder Means For Russia

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 4, 2015

The Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was murdered last week in plain view of the Kremlin. Masha Gessen, the journalist, activist and author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books, 2013) and the forthcoming The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (Riverhead Books, 2015) talks about the murder, including who may have done it and why, and how Russians are responding.

.@mashagessen says it's important to know WHERE Boris Nemtsov was killed: right in front of and "in plain view of the Kremlin."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 4, 2015

"There's no way he wasn't being tailed by...the Russian secret police." -@mashagessen
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 4, 2015

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