Rediff.com » News
Thousands to join march over slain Russian opposition leader
March 01, 2015
Thousands of Russians prepared today to march through central Moscow in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down near the Kremlin in the highest-profile assassination of Vladimir Putin's rule.
Friday's murder of the 55-year-old former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin came ahead of a major opposition rally he had planned to lead. It plunged his shocked supporters into mourning, and prompted international condemnation led by US President Barack Obama.