The murder last week of Boris Nemtsov, a leading opposition politician and a former deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, should come as no surprise. But it should come as a shock – and as a wake-up call for those Russians who until now have tolerated a culture of lawlessness and impunity, unseen since the darkest days of Stalin's personal rule in the Soviet Union.
上周，反对派政治领袖、叶利钦政府副总理鲍里斯·涅姆佐夫（Boris Nemtsov）被杀，这早已不足为奇。但其发生仍是一次冲击——并且也是对至今仍在容忍无法无天文化的俄罗斯人的一次警醒。自斯大林在苏联大搞独裁以来，俄罗斯还从未如此黑暗。