Prominent Putin opponent shot dead
28.02.2015 08:37
A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.
An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.
He died hours after appealing for support for a march on Sunday in Moscow against the war in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the murder, the Kremlin says.
In a recent interview, Mr Nemtsov had said he feared Mr Putin would have him killed because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Boris Nemtsov was one of Russia's leading economic reformers in the 1990s (file photo from 2009)
Mr Nemtsov, 55, served as first deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
Falling out of favour with Yeltsin's successor, Mr Putin, he became an outspoken opposition politician.
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