Russia hunts for killers of Nemtsov

MOSCOW: Russian investigators scrambled on Monday to track down the killers of outspoken opposition figure Boris Nemtsov as fresh details emerged about the most shocking political assassination of Vladimir Putin´s rule.
The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, a longtime Putin critic and renowned anti-corruption crusader, was shot dead shortly before midnight on Friday while walking across a bridge just a short distance from the Kremlin.
Shocked opposition figures in Russia and Western leaders called for a full and transparent probe into the murder of Nemtsov, who served as Boris Yeltsin´s deputy prime minister in the 1990s.
On Sunday, about 70,000 people joined a memorial march in Moscow for Nemtsov, numbers not seen since the mass anti-Putin rallies of 2011 and 2012.