My Father’s Daughter

Another Russia

Crooked Media

News, History

5 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a young physicist named Boris Nemtsov becomes active in politics and runs for office as the Soviet Union is collapsing. Decades later, his daughter Zhanna Nemtsova tells the story of how her father became the heir apparent to the Russian presidency.

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0:00.0	Okay. You ready?
0:02.8	I am.
0:03.5	Okay.
0:06.0	So why don't we just start, like, introduce yourself, Jana?
0:09.1	My name is Jana Nemtsova. I'm a Russian journalist and activist.
0:14.4	I'm 38 years old. I'm really old.
0:17.3	No, that's not old.
0:20.0	That's my friend, Jana and I'm Sova.
0:23.0	We're recording in the studio in Holland.
0:25.6	It's a few weeks into Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
0:29.0	She's Russian, but she hasn't lived in Russia for the last seven years.
0:33.3	She had to leave her home because of who she is and who her father was.
0:38.4	My father was Boris Nemtsov, a Russian liberal opposition politician.
0:42.5	He was assassinated in Russia in February 2015.
0:47.7	So, Zsana, at the time, you're living your life in Moscow.
0:51.9	You're working as a journalist for RBC, a Russian broadcaster.
0:56.2	Can you take us back to February 27, 2015?
1:01.2	What were you doing that day?
1:03.7	It was Friday.
1:05.8	It was my last day in office before much anticipated holiday. I was planning to go to Italy to live with
1:14.2	my mother to spend one week there. One of my colleagues approached me and he asked me,
1:20.3	could you invite your father to take part in our program today? So we are going to discuss Ukraine.
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