MOSCOW: The Ukrainian model girlfriend of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov complained Monday she was being blocked from leaving Moscow, as authorities vowed to solve the most shocking political assassination of Vladimir Putin’s rule.
The funeral for Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, longtime Putin critic and anti-corruption crusader, was to be held Tuesday in the Russian capital’s Troekurovskoye cemetery.
His body was to lie in state, starting at 0700 GMT, at the Andrei Sakharov rights centre, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted Nemtsov colleague Konstantin Merzlikin as saying.
Nemtsov was shot dead shortly before midnight Friday while walking across a bridge …read more
Source: theSun
