Moscow funeral: "The shots were fired not only at Nemtsov but at democracy in Russia"
- 9 years ago
Thousands of friends, family and supporters of Boris Nemtsov have paid their last respects.
The funeral of the opposition figure and former deputy prime minister has been held in Moscow, four days after he was gunned down near the Kremlin.
One of those gathered, teacher Svetlana Sorokina, said: “His death is a tragedy for all of us; he was one of the bright people leading the movement of those who don’t agree with Putin’s politics. This is of course bad.”
Marsel Shamsudinov, an acquaintance of Nemtsov from the city of Kazan, said: “His death has woken up those who are capable of thinking. It’s shown them that this can’t be accepted. We should fight, organise ourselves. We should change all of this.”
The murder has left the opposition in shock and many fear they will never learn the truth about what happened.
Nemtsov was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and recently slammed the war in Ukraine as Russian aggression.
Next to the coffin, another prominent Kremlin critic,
The funeral of the opposition figure and former deputy prime minister has been held in Moscow, four days after he was gunned down near the Kremlin.
One of those gathered, teacher Svetlana Sorokina, said: “His death is a tragedy for all of us; he was one of the bright people leading the movement of those who don’t agree with Putin’s politics. This is of course bad.”
Marsel Shamsudinov, an acquaintance of Nemtsov from the city of Kazan, said: “His death has woken up those who are capable of thinking. It’s shown them that this can’t be accepted. We should fight, organise ourselves. We should change all of this.”
The murder has left the opposition in shock and many fear they will never learn the truth about what happened.
Nemtsov was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and recently slammed the war in Ukraine as Russian aggression.
Next to the coffin, another prominent Kremlin critic,