NEWSWATCH: Death threats and a late night dinner before Russia’s Nemtsov was shot dead
[“Death threats and a late night dinner before Russia’s Nemtsov was shot dead” – Reuters – Thomas Grove – MOSCOW, Feb 28, 2015]
Reuters covers the assassination of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov in Moscow.
A political reformer who had fallen foul of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nemtsov had been preoccupied for weeks with details of an opposition march planned for Sunday.
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The pair were among the last to pay their bill in the restaurant … At around 11 p.m. Nemtsov … escorted his girlfriend … Anna Duritskaya … out onto Red Square. Opposite them … stood the marble tomb that still bears the body of … Lenin, whose communist economic order Nemtsov helped dismantle …. Nemtsov’s apartment was a half hour walk away …. The couple turned left, passing to their right … St Basil’s Cathedral. Beyond that, soared the Kremlin’s Spassky Gate …. Further down the slope, they walked onto the Great Moskvoretsky Bridge; but Nemtsov never made it across. … shot four times in the back and head in one of the worst shootings Moscow has seen in years.