MOSCOW: Russian investigators scrambled Monday to track down the killers of outspoken opposition figure Boris Nemtsov as fresh details emerged about the most shocking political assassination of Vladimir Putin’s rule.
The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, a longtime Putin critic and renowned anti-corruption crusader, was shot dead shortly before midnight Friday while walking across a bridge just a short distance from the Kremlin.
Shocked opposition figures in Russia and Western leaders called for a full and transparent probe into the murder of Nemtsov, who served as Boris Yeltsin’s deputy prime minister in the 1990s.
On Sunday, about 70,000 people joined a memorial march …read more
Source: theSun
