27 February 2015; 9 years ago (2015-02-27) 23:31[2] (UTC+03:00)
Target
Boris Nemtsov
Attack type
Assassination
Weapons
Makarov pistol[3]
Deaths
1
Motive
Retaliation to criticism of President Vladimir Putin, Islamism, and Ramzan Kadyrov (disputed)[4][5][6][7]
Convicted
Zaur Dadaev
Anzor Gubashev
Shadid Gubashev
Tamerlan Eskerkhanov
Khamzat Bakhayev
Verdict
Guilty
Convictions
Murder
Sentence
Dadaev: 20 years in prison Accomplices: 11–19 years in prison[8]
Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015.[9] An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol. Four of them hit
Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him almost instantly. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine.[10] Nemtsov's Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya survived the attack as its sole eyewitness.[11]
The assassination was met with worldwide condemnation and concern for the situation of the Russian opposition. Russian authorities also condemned the murder and vowed to conduct a thorough investigation.
On 8 March 2015, Russian authorities charged Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadaev, both originating from the Northern Caucasus, with involvement in the crime. According to Russian authorities, Dadaev confessed to involvement in the murder. He later retracted his statement, on the grounds that it was extracted under torture. Three more suspects were arrested around the same time and, according to Russian media, another suspect blew himself up in Grozny when Russian police forces surrounded his apartment block.
^"Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead". BBC. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ТВЦ опубликовал запись с зафиксировавшей убийство Бориса Немцова камеры tr. TVC published a recording from the camera that recorded the murder of Boris Nemtsov, 28 February 2015, meduza.io, Retrieved 5 September 2020 (in Russian)
^Ostroukh, Andrey; Kolyandr, Alexander (28 February 2015). "Russia Probes Motives in assassination of Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^"Убийство Бориса Немцова раскрыли технично" [The murder of Boris Nemtsov was solved technically]. Kommersant. 7 March 2015.
^"Для убийства Немцова нашли мотив" [Motive found for the murder of Nemtsov]. Rosbalt. 8 March 2015.
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^"Russia hands 20-year jail term to killer of Putin critic Nemtsov". Reuters. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
^Источник: в Москве убит Борис Немцов [Source: Boris Nemtsov assassinated in Moscow]. Kommersant (in Russian). 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^Julia Ioffe (28 February 2015). "After Boris Nemtsov's Assassination, 'There Are No Longer Any Limits'". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
^"Anna Duritskaya, only known witness to Nemtsov's murder, flies to Kyiv". euronews. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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