RIP Boris Nemtsov
Hopefully this people's movement in Russia will put a halt to Putin's thug dictatorship.
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MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of people representing a wide range of political parties and movements marched solemnly through central Moscow on Sunday to honor the opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov, many filing right past the Kremlin walls holding signs saying “I am not afraid.”
The crowd was commensurate in size to some of the larger rallies held in the Russian capital two years ago during the so-called white ribbon protests, a movement that Mr. Nemtsov, who was fatally shot near Red Square on Friday, had helped organize.
Russian news media reported that more than 56,000 marchers had passed through metal detectors at the start of the route, meaning that more people than expected had turned out.
Some in the crowd said they hoped the turnout signaled a revival of opposition street politics in Russia, though it was far from clear that would be the case, given the legal obstacles to organizing and a high level of pro-government sentiment that surfaced during the conflict with Ukraine.
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