MOSCOW: Thousands of mourners yesterday filed past the coffin of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, bidding farewell to a charismatic activist whose brazen assassination shocked the country. The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, longtime Putin critic and anti-corruption crusader who was gunned down near the Kremlin late Friday, will be buried in Moscow later. The European Union condemned what it called “arbitrary” bans imposed on several prominent European figures whom Russia had blocked from attending the funeral. Nemtsov’s muder marked the most high-profile assassination of President Vladimir Putin’s rule, sent shock waves across Moscow and triggered international condemnation led …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
