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Euronews: 5 years after Nemtsov murder, West demands Russia identifies mastermind

Published Feb. 28, 2020 at 5:15 pm

A woman lays flowers in central Moscow on February 25, 2018 at the site where late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was fatally shot on a bridge near the Kremlin. The 55-year-old former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin was shot in the back several times just before midnight on February 27, 2015 as he walked across a bridge a stone's throw from the Kremlin walls. / AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV

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Western allies marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov by calling on authorities to find the mastermind behind the crime.

Nemtsov, a former Russian MP, governor and deputy prime minister, was gunned down near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015.