Russian news agencies say
prominent opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris
Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow.
The Interfax news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying
that Nemtsov was shot four times by an unidentified assailant late in
the evening on February 27 and died of his injuries.
Interfax said it did could not independently verify the report.
Nemtsov’s fellow Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin said on Twitter that Nemtsov was shot and is “dead.”
Once considered a potential successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet
president, Boris Yeltsin, Nemstov became an opposition politician and
fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Source
Comments
Post a Comment