Thousands of people gathered in central Moscow to honour opposition
politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on Friday. He was due to
lead an opposition march on Sunday but his supporters will now be
marching to mourn his death. President Vladimir Putin condemned Mr
Nemtsov's murder as "vile and cynical" and vowed to find the killers. Mr
Nemtsov's allies call it a political killing linked to his opposition
Mr Putin and the Ukraine conflict. Russia's Investigative Committee said
it was looking into a number of possible motives, including Mr
Nemtsov's opposition to the Ukraine war, his political and personal
life, Islamic extremism or an attempt to destabilise the state. Mr
Nemtsov was reportedly preparing documents on Russian military
involvement in Ukraine in the weeks before his death. Mr Nemtsov served
as first deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the
1990s but fell out of favour with Mr Putin and became an outspoken
opponent.
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