Boris Nadezhdin
Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin (; born April 26, 1963) is a Russian opposition politician and Moscow municipal deputy. He served in the 3rd convocation of the State Duma, from 1999 to 2003. Nadezhdin was close ally of murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Early and personal life
Nadezhdin was born in Tashkent, Soviet Uzbekistan. He is of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, and Jewish heritage. He survived the Tashkent earthquake, which occurred on his third birthday. In 1969, he was brought by his parents to the city of Dolgoprudny where his father studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and his mother was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. For five generations in the Nadezhdin family, all men bore the name Boris. His grandfather was a Soviet Uzbek composer and associate professor at the Tashkent Conservatory. His maternal grandfather fled to Uzbekistan from Ukraine after the October Revolution. Education 
In 1979 he won the second prize at the All-Union Mathematical Olympiad among high school students. That year, he graduated from the Specialized Boarding School No. 18 for Physics and Mathematics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1985, he graduated with honors from MIPT. From 1985 to 1990, he  was an engineer and researcher at the All-Union Research Center for the Study of Surface and Vacuum Properties. Career 
Nadezhdhin served in the 3rd convocation of the State Duma, from 1999 to 2003. In 2011, Nadezhdhin contested the Moscow Regional Duma elections as leader of the Right Cause party. Nadezhdhin contested the 2018 Moscow Oblast gubernatorial election for the Party of Growth. In April 2022, Nadezhdhin said that the Soviet Union had "occupied Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe." Opposition to war in Ukraine

In September 2022, as Russia retreated from Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Nadezhdin criticized Russia's intelligence services and called for negotiations to end the conflict on an NTV current affairs show. He criticized Russia's war strategy stating it was impossible to beat Ukraine using its current methods and materials calling the strategy "colonial war methods." A few days later, on the Russia-1 channel, Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov called for Nadezhdin to be arrested. In January 2023, Nadezhdin suggested the "war was a disastrous mistake" on the NTV current affairs show Mesto Vstrechi. During the last week of March 2023 on the same show he was "angrily shouted down" after he suggested that the west was more powerful than Russia. On May 27 2023, Nadezhdin called for electing a new government in Russia in order to stop the war against Ukraine and build relations with Europe. See also
Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia

References

1963 births
Living people
Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Politicians from Tashkent
21st-century Russian politicians