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Al Jazeera: March to remember slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov

Published Feb. 26, 2017. Updated Feb. 26 at 7:27 pm

Russian opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov (C) and supporters of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov hold flags and banners during a memorial march on Feb. 26, in central Moscow, two years after Nemtsov was gunned down just yards from the Kremlin. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister in the government of Boris Yeltsin, was gunned down shortly before midnight on Feb. 27, 2015, while walking across a bridge a short distance from the Kremlin with his Ukrainian model girlfriend.

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Russian activists have started gathering in the capital, Moscow, for a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader murdered two years ago.

Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister who became an outspoken critic of longtime President Vladimir Putin, was shot in February 2015 while walking across a bridge a short distance from the Kremlin with his Ukrainian girlfriend.