Ilya Yashin: Nemtsov investigation paves way for more assassinations
A man lights a candle on Feb. 27 at the spot, where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead, on the one-year anniversary of Nemtsov's assassination. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister in the government of Boris Yeltsin, was gunned down shortly before midnight on Feb. 27, 2015, while walking across a bridge a short distance from the Kremlin with his Ukrainian model girlfriend.
Boris Nemtsov never believed he would be murdered. Of course, he understood he might be harassed in one way or another. He knew the authorities might have plans to send him to prison. He felt this even more keenly after they called him in for questioning and searched his apartment. But he never for one minute imagined that someone could shoot him in the back.
