Nemtsov’s Book Criticizing Vladimir Putin Is Seized in Russia as ‘Extremist’
Thousands of copies of a book by Boris Nemtsov attacking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule have been seized by Russian police on the grounds that the work is extremist, said as spokeswoman for opposition party Solidarity.
Copies of the book Boris Nemtsov, the liberal opposition leader and a former Deputy Prime Minister under President Yeltsin, were impounded by police in the northern city of Murmansk. Olga Shorina, a party spokeswoman, said: "We sent the books by train and as they were being loaded into a car they were confiscated. The reason was that the Murmansk police regard them as extremist literature."
Nemtsov told an audience at the University of Toronto in Canada by video-link this week that Russia was at risk of a new revolution as a result of Putin's authoritarian rule.