Although few doubted the seriousness of his political convictions, Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov also had a reputation as a charmer and something of a playboy. Yet one of a very few opposition leaders who always seemed to manage to keep a smile on his face, despite taking the huge risk of publicly opposing the Kremlin, was brutally gunned down on Friday. Nemtsov, a former first deputy prime minister in the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin, was shot four times in the back by an unidentified gunman as he walked across Moscow’s Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge with his girlfriend of three years, …read more
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