Share the View: Nemtsov's Murder and Putin's Russia

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

MARCH 2, 2015 bloombergview.com

RUSSIA The Editors: "The thousands who marched in Moscow on Sunday in honor of the murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov did so because they recognize just how much has been lost with his death. Nemtsov had been brave enough to tell the truth in Russia under President Vladimir Putin." Read more... Eli Lake: "The murder of a high-profile Russian opposition leader has already sent a chill among President Vladimir Putin's beleaguered political foes." Read more... Leonid Bershidsky: "Under President Boris Nemtsov, Russia could have been a country where I could have kept living and working. With his death, that unrealized future has died, too." Read more... WALL STREET Matt Levine: "Warren Buffett demands a theory. ... The trick is to be rigorous while seeming sentimental, to drive a hard bargain by looking like a teddy bear." Read more... Justin Fox: "Most big corporations are managed in a perversely counterproductive way that discourages good long-run leadership. Organize your company in a different way and maybe you'll do better. That is what Vice Chairman Charlie Munger explains in a wonderfully brisk account of Berkshire Hathaway's strengths that is tacked on to the company's annual letter to shareholders." Read more... POLITICS The Editors: "That partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, originally set for Friday at midnight, has been tentatively rescheduled for March 6. ... That means two things. The department will continue to hobble along under the threat of defunding. And some Republican members of the House will continue their pathetic rigmarole about executive overreach." Read more... Albert R. Hunt: "Hillary Clinton has enlisted a Coca-Cola marketing whiz to help brand her expected presidential campaign. This is quintessential Clinton." Read more... ASIA Dhiraj Nayyar: "Expectations for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first full-year budget were always going to be too extravagant to satisfy."Read more... Mark Buchanan: "Where will China and India be in a decade, economically speaking?" Read more... ENVIRONMENT Adam Minter: "Apple likes to say it's on the cutting edge of the fight against climate change. Over the past two weeks, the company has boasted about the $848 million solar farm it's building to power its new headquarters in Silicon Valley and two new European data centers that will be its 'lowest impact' yet. But projects like this barely scratch the surface of Apple's impact on the environment." Read more...