Russian Opposition Cancels Sunday's Rally In Marino District
Leonid Volkov, an opposition activist and close ally of Aleksei Navalny, wrote on Twitter that the opposition rally due on Sunday has been canceled despite weeks of intense preparations because of the "force majeur" of Nemtsov's death. He said the city authorities had approved a march of mourning in central Moscow to the spot where Nemtsov was gunned down.
"3. The march will happen tomorrow at 15:00 from Kitai-Gorod to the bridge to the place of the death, the march has been agreed with City Hall, we can and must call everyone there"
Looking ahead to a planned March 1 opposition rally, in an interview with RFE/RL’s Russian Service earlier this month, Nemtsov portrayed the demonstration as just a first step in a long struggle.
Boris Nemtsov: 'We Must Free Russia From Putin'
And this excellent obituary from Washington correspondent Carl Schreck, who spent many years as a journalist in Russia.
Boris Nemtsov, A Russian Political 'Golden Boy' Who Battled Putin, Dead At 55
We'll begin this blog with a few of the stories that we've produced in the hours since Russian media made the shocking announcement that 55-year-old opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov had been killed, apparently shot four times from a car as he walked across a bridge with a companion in the heart of Moscow.