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Moscow Mayor Urged by 30,000 Activists to Honor Assassinated Kremlin Critic


Russian opposition activists have sent 30,000 signatures to the mayor of Moscow, calling on local authorities to honor late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov with a memorial plaque.

Nemtsov, who was once Russia’s deputy prime minister and a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in central Moscow while walking home at night last year.

Russia’s only independent member of parliament, Dmitry Gudkov, and liberal journalist Timofey Dzyadko posted images of their request to Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Facebook, calling on him to install a memorial plaque on the bridge where Nemtsov was shot four times …read more

Source: Newsweek

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