Nemtsov murder

Opposition leader and former Russian first deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has died after being shot in central Moscow on Feb. 28, 2015. He was 55. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, Nemtsov was walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin a little after 11 p.m. when a white car pulled alongside him and fired a number of shots at point-blank range, hitting him in the back.