Several EU politicians and Russia’s opposition leader have been barred from attending the funeral of murdered Russian politician Boris Nemtsov.
A Polish politician was denied a visa under existing Russian sanctions while a Latvian MEP was turned back after arriving at a Moscow airport.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was denied permission to leave jail, where he is serving a 15-day sentence.
Mourners are filing past Nemtsov’s coffin at Moscow’s Sakharov centre.
His funeral will be held in the afternoon (local time) at a Moscow cemetery, Troyekurovskoye, where murdered journalist Anna Politkovskayta was buried in 2006.
Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was …read more
Source: Voice Of Nigeria
