A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say.
An unidentified
attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge
in view of the Kremlin, police say.
He died hours after
appealing for support for a march on Sunday in Moscow against the war in
Ukraine.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin has condemned the murder, the Kremlin says.
In a recent interview,
Mr Nemtsov had said he feared Mr Putin would have him killed because of his
opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Mr Nemtsov, 55, served as first deputy prime
minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
He had earned a reputation
as an economic reformer while governor of one of Russia's biggest cities,
Nizhny Novgorod.
Falling out of favour
with Yeltsin's successor, Mr Putin, he became an outspoken opposition
politician.
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