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In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (1990), Federation Council (1993–97) and State Duma (1999–2003).","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"9 October 1959","date":"1959-10-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363846#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Sochi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39420"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363846#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"27 February 2015","date":"2015-02-27"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363846#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Moscow","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363846#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Soviet 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