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Jeanne Nemzowa: “Putin’s policies will fail”

2015 was the Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot. His daughter Jeanne moved shortly thereafter to Germany, where Deutsche Welle is working. Now she puts her book “Russia to stir up”.

Jeanne Nemzowa brood over your Moderation for the Russian program of the German wave. The brown eyes are flashing when the Name Putin falls. During the interview, she seems focused and argued gestenreich. It is a year ago since her father Boris Nemtsov, one of the most well-known Russian opposition politician and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, on the open road was shot.

The assassination attempt happened on the night of the 27. February 2015 is within sight of the Kremlin. Located in the center of power of Russia believed the 31-year-old television journalist Nemzowa the masterminds for the murder of her father. By return of post she made to President Putin personally politically responsible.

Ongoing threats drove them to emigrate

The assassination attempt sparked worldwide horror. Almost a year later now, Jeanne Nemzowas book “Russia to stir up”. She has it written in Germany, where after constant threats had emigrated. Your of the journalist and Kremlin-critic Boris Reitschuster translated work appears first only in Germany.

DW: It’s almost a year since your father on the open road, was shot in Moscow. Why did he have to die?

DW-reporter Jeanne Nemzowa in an Interview with the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Jeanne Nemzowa: This was a politically motivated murder. For a long time it was my father, as well as other opposition leaders, under pressure. This pressure was to violence and culminated in his murder. He came substantially of the authorities and of the Russian Fernsehpropaganda. The goal was, the political activities of my father to stop and people to intimidate.

Many people in Russia today are intimidated. You have fear, freely and publicly to speak and to speak her mind. Some opposition leaders are on the “Red list”. All other leaders have no fear, but put your activities. The are really brave and deserve great respect for their Courage.

Her book is called “Russia to stir up”. What exactly should the Russians be shaken up?

These words came from my father, as he once attended Church. He ascended the tower and began ringing the bell to ring. To do this, he said: ‘I must get the Russians to stir up’.

The Russian government, the Russian authorities, are on the wrong path. The leads to recession and economic decline, weakening of institutions and loss of infrastructure. Russia needs change, but it must be a democratic change! We should be on the ground of democratic values to return. We must not be aggressive towards other countries. We should be on the problems in Russia focus.

The message is: Without a change of political leadership there will be no positive change in Russia. The need to understand the people. Putin is not a Russian Patriot. He’s doing his Best to make the situation worse. His strategy will fail.

“The support for Putin is fleeting”

They describe Russia as an “Unrechtsstaat” – without genuine elections, the annexation of Crimea, the secret war against the Ukraine, the media’s propaganda. And yet Putin in his country more popular than ever?

That is what it is, not really. In the year 2000, he was very popular. Almost 80 percent of Russians have supported him. Back in office as President, not elected to, increased his approval rating within a few months by leaps and bounds. This shows that this support is very volatile, that the people are actually no clear political preferences per se. It is a passive Form of support, not active. And Putin knows that. Many places are only minorities actively. This is the reason why Putin is trying to put pressure on the minorities to exercise.

There is still another reason for its supposed popularity: When people recently asked if they were afraid, openly to the current political Situation to comment, said 26 percent of the respondents “Yes”!

And also, there is no clear Alternative to Putin.

In commemoration of Boris Nemtsov in February 2015

Russian media reported recently in detail about the alleged rape of a 13-year-old Russian German girl in Berlin. A smooth misinformation. Leads Putin an information war against Germany?

Me has this attack from Putin-controlled media in Germany surprised. But I hardly think that Russian speaking people in this country are more than three million of these Propaganda sit up.

The German public Prosecutor’s office investigated now, whether the Russian correspondent to violate the law. This, at least, shows that when Russian Propaganda Germany touched very vigorously proceeded against. I had warned. But these warnings have been hit in the Wind.

Now they are working for the Deutsche Welle, the German Auslandsrundfunk. Has your view of Russia changed?

No. My view of Russia was very clear. In Russia I have as a commentator for a private channel worked, a kind of Russian Bloomberg. We have about the financial market and global economic reports. Here in the German wave, I’ve a different role. I reports still about economic things, but also about many other things. This is a challenge. But my views have not changed. There are the same views as three years ago. I have a clear political attitude and political preferences.

The conversation with Jeanne Nemzowa was led by Stefan Dege. Her book “Russia galvanize”, translated by Boris Reitschuster, the Ullstein Verlag, has 192 pages and costs 18 Euro.