MOSCOW: Thousands of mourners on Tuesday 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 critic of President Vladimir Putin and anti-corruption crusader who was gunned down outside of the Kremlin walls late Friday, will be buried in Moscow later on Tuesday.
The most shocking political murder of Putin’s rule sent shockwaves across Russia and triggered international condemnation led by US President Barack Obama.
Former British prime minister John Major was among the first to arrive at the Andrei Sakharov rights centre …read more
Source: theSun
