Thousands of people flocked to a Moscow bridge overlooking the Kremlin to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the assassination of a top Russian opposition figure.
MOSCOW – Thousands of people flocked to a Moscow bridge overlooking the Kremlin on Saturday to lay flowers and celebrate the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a top Russian opposition figure.
Nemtsov, 55, a former deputy prime minister, was shot dead as he walked along the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge late on February 27, 2015.
Among those who attended Saturday’s commemoration was Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Navalny’s detention in January after returning to Moscow from five months of recovery in Germany due to nerve agent poisoning, sparked a wave of nationwide protests.
Nemtsov was one of Russia’s most energetic and charismatic opposition figures, and his death was a blow to political opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
An officer in the security forces of Chechnya’s leader backed by the Kremlin has been sentenced to 20 years for shooting Nemtsov. Four other men were sentenced to 11 to 19 years for involvement.