Boris Nemtsov, a leading Russian opposition leader has been shot dead in Moscow.<br /><br /> Police say the 55-year-old former deputy prime minister was gunned down while walking with a woman near the Kremlin late on Friday night.<br /><br /> He is said to have been shot four times in the back by several people who got out of a car.<br /><br /> Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has condemned Nemtsov’s murder which comes a few weeks after he gave an interview saying he feared for his life because of his stance against the conflict in Ukraine.<br /><br /> He was also in the process of promoting what’s expected to be a major anti-war rally in the Russian capital this weekend.<br /><br /> After the Soviet Union’s collapse and during Boris Yeltsin’s time in charge at the Kremlin, Nemtsov made his name as a western orientated free market reformer.<br /><br /> He co-founded the anti-Putin movement Solidarity, with chess champion Garry Kasparov, in an effort to unite various opposition groups.<br /><br /> Four years ago, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail after
