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On 27 February 2015, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated as he crossed the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in central Moscow at 23:31 local time.
Mar 28, 2022 · Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead, an investigation has found. Nemtsov...
Feb 27, 2015 · Just after midnight on Friday, Boris Nemtsov, a fifty-five-year-old Russian opposition politician, was gunned down as he walked across a bridge just outside the Kremlin walls. A car drove past,...
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Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow, [7] [8] with four shots fired from the back. [9] . At the time of his assassination, he was in Moscow helping to organize a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis.
Boris Nemtsov was a leading figure in the opposition movement for free-market economics and democratic social reforms in postcommunist Russia and an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was assassinated near Red Square in February 2015.
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Feb 26, 2016 · On February 27th the leader of Russian opposition, a star reformer of the Soviet Union during Perestroika, and a Deputy Prime-minister of Boris Yeltsin's government, a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin was mysteriously assassinated in the center of Moscow.
Feb 28, 2015 · MOSCOW — Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, was shot dead Friday evening in central Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in...
