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Moscow funeral: "The shots were fired not only at Nemtsov but at democracy in Russia"

2015-03-03 18 Dailymotion

Thousands of friends, family and supporters of Boris Nemtsov have paid their last respects. <br /><br /> The funeral of the opposition figure and former deputy prime minister has been held in Moscow, four days after he was gunned down near the Kremlin.<br /><br /> One of those gathered, teacher Svetlana Sorokina, said: “His death is a tragedy for all of us; he was one of the bright people leading the movement of those who don’t agree with Putin’s politics. This is of course bad.”<br /><br /> Marsel Shamsudinov, an acquaintance of Nemtsov from the city of Kazan, said: “His death has woken up those who are capable of thinking. It’s shown them that this can’t be accepted. We should fight, organise ourselves. We should change all of this.”<br /><br /> The murder has left the opposition in shock and many fear they will never learn the truth about what happened.<br /><br /> Nemtsov was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and recently slammed the war in Ukraine as Russian aggression.<br /><br /> Next to the coffin, another prominent Kremlin critic,

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