Sergei Karpuchin/Reuters Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in Moscow shortly before midnight on Friday night local time. The Russian Interior Ministry told the Associated Press that Nemtsov had been shot four times while walking on a bridge near the Kremlin. Nemtsov had been expected to help lead a major opposition rally in the capital on Sunday. Nemtsov had been a deputy prime minister under then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin for a year and half beginning in 1997—a period the Washington Post described in 1998 as “a frustrating 18 months at the cutting edge of a critical period in …read more
Source: The Atlantic
