Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday carrying pictures of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov and placards reading “I am not afraid.”
In Moscow, as the crowd approached the Kremlin, it chanted “Russia without Putin,” and “Putin, leave!” according to the BBC.
Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and one of the most prominent critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was killed in a hail of gunfire early on Feb. 28 while walking with a companion near the Kremlin in Moscow. Multiple gunmen sped away in a car.
The 55-year-old Nemtsov long had …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
