Mourning march for slain opposition leader Nemtsov to be held in Moscow
People visit the site where Boris Nemtsov was recently murdered, with St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin walls seen in the background, February 28, 2015. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
A rally in commemoration of the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is set to be held in the Russian capital Sunday. Demonstrators will march through the center of Moscow, crossing over the bridge near the Kremlin where the politician was shot dead.
The mourning march is instead of the Vesna (Spring) opposition rally, that had been planned for Sunday, but was canceled due to Nemtsov’s death.
The slain politician was one of the organizers of the rally and called on people to come join it in an interview given just hours before he was shot.
Thousands of people have laid flowers at the scene of the murder.
Boris Nemtsov was shot several times just before midnight Friday, while he walked across the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge leading from the Red Square, allegedly in the company of a Ukrainian model, Anna Duritskaya.
READ MORE: Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov killed in the center of Moscow
It was first reported that the fatal shots were fired from a passing-by vehicle. Later a CCTV footage of the incident emerged, which suggests that a killer could have been waiting for Nemtsov on the bridge and then escaped on a car parked nearby.
The footage is a low-resolution one and only allows to distinguish the cars on the bridge and the figures of people moving along it.
READ MORE: Opposition leader Nemtsov’s murder caught on CCTV camera (VIDEO)
Investigators are currently looking into five possible motives behind the assassination, according to Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee.
The politician’s murder could have been a provocation to destabilize the political situation in Russia, Markin said. It could have also been linked to the threats Nemtsov received over his stance on Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris or the current civil war in the east of Ukraine. The politician’s business activities and a possible assault related to his personal life are also being looked into.
READ MORE: Nemtsov murder: Russian investigators probing several possible motives
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that everything will be done to punish those responsible for the organization and execution of the murder, which he described as “vile and cynical.”
The crime has been condemned by leading politicians in and outside Russia, with US President Barack Obama, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging a thorough investigation of the crime.
Nemtsov, 55, came into the spotlight as governor of Nizhny Novgorod region from 1991-97. He also served as energy minister and deputy prime minister under former President Boris Yeltsin.
After 1998 he participated in the creation of several liberal movements and parties, serving as a member of parliament.
Since 2012, he co-chaired the liberal party RPR-PARNAS (Republican Party of Russia – People’s Freedom Party).
He ran for mayor of Sochi in 2013, but lost the race with only 13.6 percent of the popular vote. The same year, he was elected a member of the Yaroslavl Region parliament.
READ MORE: Boris Nemtsov: From reformist wonder boy to disgruntled opposition leader
Source: RT
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