MOSCOW - They met three years ago, by some accounts on a vacation to Turkey, and soon enough became a couple. Though she was less than half his age, Anna Duritskaya, a Ukrainian model, was often with Boris Nemtsov, a beleaguered Russian opposition leader, including on Feb. 27 evening, when a gunman carried out the highest-profile political assassination in Russia during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin.
New York Times: Nemtsov’s companion, witness to killing, says she’s barred from leaving Russia
A woman places a candle on Feb. 28, 2015 in memory of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov at the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to political prisoners, in St. Petersburg.
