A court in Moscow has sentenced a Chechen man to 20 years in jail for killing Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov two years ago.<br /><br />State prosecutors said Zaur Dadayev, a former soldier in Chechnya, shot Nemtsov dead as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin with his girlfriend. <br /><br />Four other Chechens were convicted of being accomplices and received sentences of between 11 and 19 years.<br /><br />Nemtsov was one of President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics and had been working on a report examining Russia’s role in the conflict in Ukraine.<br /><br />His killing sent a chill through opposition circles.<br /><br />State prosecutors said the group had followed Nemtsov around Moscow and had been promised a bounty of around two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to kill him.<br /><br />Colleagues of Nemtsov said the investigation had been a cover-up and that the people who had ordered his killing remain at large.<br />
