It's clearly a political murder. It's definitely a contract one, i don't know who killed Boris, but I know that it's the government and personally Putin who are responsible for it. They've been constantly promoting a hatred towards everyone who doesn't support their course and thinks different.

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Nemtsov as a symbol was and is very dangerous for the Putin regime, but the more they destroy his memorial, the brighter a symbol he will become.

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If investigators did their work seriously and were not shielding the criminals, Kadyrov and his entourage would have been questioned long ago.

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Russia will be free! we will not depart from the country and leave it in the mercy of 'crooks and thieves'.

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Nemtsov set an important example not only for me but for everyone, nemtsov was carrying the opposition banner. They killed him, but we've picked up the banner and we'll carry it further.

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Only a madman wouldn't be afraid, this year alone one of my friends has been killed and another jailed.

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It's very difficult to campaign in Kostroma region, so that's why we were allowed to participate here, but we have a very simple message. We want to show people there's an alternative.

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I understand we won't be able to change anything with this election, we won't be able to change the government and the government doesn't want to do anything. But that's why you need the opposition, to hold the government to account, and to make officials work.

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The war with Ukraine is an undeclared war, a vile cynical war which amounts to a crime against all of the Russian nation. Putin will go down in history as the president who made Russians and Ukrainians foes, the main conclusion of our report is that we have collected and systematized (information) which we think provides ample evidence of the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

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Our worst fears are coming true, the trigger man will be blamed, while those who actually ordered Nemtsov's killing will go free.

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I want to believe that these ones are really the ones who conducted (the killing) and that once in a while law enforcement worked professionally and detained real assassins, and did not make a mistake, the key task for investigators is to find and prosecute the ones who ordered this murder. If everything ends with the detention of scapegoats, irrespective of whether they are the real assassins or not, the practice of political assassinations will continue with no doubt.

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He told me he had been in touch with relatives of Russian soldiers killed there and he was planning a trip to Ivanovo to talk to the parents of those killed soldiers, he said in the very near future he was going to assemble and put in order various evidence and documents directly proving the presence of the Russian military on the territory of Ukraine and, accordingly, (exposing) President's Putin's lies that there are no Russian servicemen there.

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It's clearly a political murder, i don't know who killed Boris, but I know that it's the government and personally Putin who are responsible for it.

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Essentially it is an act of terror. It is a political murder aimed at frightening the population, or the part of the population that supported Nemtsov and did not agree with the government, i hope we won't get scared, that we will continue what Boris was doing.

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It was President Putin who created this atmosphere of hate in our country, the atmosphere of intolerance, which one way or another materialized in the bullet that killed my friend Boris Nemtsov.

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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

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