A number of different scenarios for how opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated on February 27, 2015 have been published in both the independent and pro-Kremlin Russian media this past year, notably by RosBalt, Novaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets and REN-TV. The heads of the Investigative Committee, Federal Security Service and Interior Ministry were tasked by President Vladimir Putin to take personal control over the investigation, yet they had almost nothing to say in the last year; all the developments in the investigation were leaked to the press.
The Interpreter: Novaya Gazeta’s investigation into how Boris Nemtsov was murdered
Russian police investigators walk past the body of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, covered by plastic, on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral (background) in central Moscow on February 28, 2015. A Russian opposition leader and fierce critic of President Vladmir Putin, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead by an unidentified attacker who fired multiple rounds at the politician as he was walking in central Moscow late Friday. AFP
