People gather at the site where Boris Nemtsov was murdered in central Moscow on Feb. 28. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday condemned the killing of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.
Obama said in a statement that Nemtsov was brutally murdered. He called on Russia’s government to “conduct a prompt, impartial and transparent investigation into the circumstances of his murder and ensure that those responsible for this vicious killing are brought to justice.”
Nemtsov is a former deputy prime minister who later became a prominent opposition leader and a sharp critic of …read more
Source: PBS
