MOSCOW — Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister, was shot dead Friday evening in central Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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Medics lift the body of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, covered with plastic, on Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral 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 PHOTO / DMITRY SERERYAKOV
