The Investigative Committee handling the case said it had obtained closed-circuit television footage from the scene, and scheduled ballistic and medical tests. Russian investigators say they are actively working to track down Nemtsov's killers. Sergei Kiriyenko, a former prime minister who now runs the state atomic agency, said it had the hallmarks of a hit ordered by oligarchs who had fallen out with the Kremlin. Russian government officials have said they suspect the murder was a "provocation" carried out by Putin's opponents to discredit him. The killing of a leading opponent against the backdrop of the Kremlin, in an area closely watched by the security services, has been deeply awkward for Putin. Mourners, including Dina Eidman (3rd L, front), mother of Russian leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, and Mikhail Kasyanov (C, back), an opposition leader and former Russian prime minister, attend a memorial service before the funeral of Nemtsov in Moscow, Mar. Latvia said its former foreign minister, Sandra Kalniete, was also denied entry. Naina Yeltsina, the widow of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who brought Nemtsov into his government in the 1990s and briefly viewed him as a potential successor, was among the mourners.įormer British Prime Minister John Major was present but Poland said the speaker of its upper house of parliament, Bogdan Borusewicz, was prevented from attending because Russia would not issue him with an entry visa.
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This last year has been full of suffering."
"I feel like Putin killed me on the day he died.
"He was our hope," said Tatyana, a pensioner queuing to pay her respects. The queue of people waiting to go in stretched about a kilometer in the streets outside the hall. Nemtsov is to be buried later on Tuesday at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow. His ex-wife, Yekaterina Odintsova, with a black headscarf pulled over her blonde hair, stood nearby. Nemtsov's mother, dressed in black, stood stooped over the coffin. Photographs of the 55-year-old hung on the walls, and sombre music played. The casket lid was partially open to reveal his head. Nemtsov's coffin stood in the center of a hall at a human rights center named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov. Polls show most Russians support Putin, despite a plummeting ruble and international sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. Dvorkovich, from the Kremlin's increasingly sidelined liberal camp, was carrying a bunch of red flowers.įor the most part though, the mourners were die-hard Kremlin opponents who feel deep alarm at Nemtsov's killing but who represent only a minority of the Russian population. In a gesture of conciliation from the Kremlin, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich joined mourners filing into the hall where his open casket was on display. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was the most prominent opposition figure to be murdered in Russia during Putin's 15-year rule. Rest in peace my friend, your work will be continued." "We never thought this could happen, but it did. "The shots were fired not only at Nemtsov but at all of us, at democracy in Russia," Gennady Gudkov, a prominent Kremlin opponent, said in a speech delivered next to the coffin. Nemtsov's friends say he was the victim of an atmosphere of hatred whipped up against anyone who opposes the president.
Thousands of Russians, many carrying red carnations, queued on Tuesday to pay their respects to Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose murder last week showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin.Īides to Putin deny any involvement in killing Nemtsov, who was shot in the back four times on Friday within sight of the Kremlin walls.
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