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"First they shot down a Boeing in Ukraine and we thought nothing could be worse and now this nightmare, also a huge crash for Russia... Nobody should dare to gun down people by the Kremlin wall – this is unacceptable," Olga Riabova, a designer, insists, sitting round a table with her friends under a crystal chandelier in a glamourous Moscow restaurant. The night Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot, the women and their friends rushed to the murder scene: "We were so furious, ready to begin a Maidan revolution," Anastasia Kozhayeva, an illustrator, recalls. "Russia is very much ready for a change but Russians grow cold fast, they should be motivated while they are still angry. See, today we are not so ready for the revolution any longer," she laughs.

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