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Boris Nemtsov Assassination in Moscow: History of political murders in modern Russia

On February 27th the leader of Russian opposition, a star reformer of the Soviet Union during Perestroika, and a Deputy Prime-minister of Boris Yeltsin's government, a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin was mysteriously assassinated in the center of Moscow.

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