Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown Moscow

Overnight to February 28 Boris
Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown
Moscow. According to preliminary
data, an unknown assailant made a
few shots at Nemtsov when he was
walking along the Bolshoy
Moskvore
tsky Bridge. Nemtsov was a
co-chair of the RPR-Parnas party. He
had held a number of government
positions in the 1990s. TASS recalls
the developments in life and career of Russian opposition and state
figure Boris Nemtsov in this gallery.