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As partners in Russia's struggling opposition movement, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov didn't always have the smoothest of friendships. But the former chess champion says his respect for Nemtsov - shot dead at age 55 a stone's throw from the Kremlin walls - is absolute.

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