Yeltsin’s wife, tycoon Prokhorov in long queue to say last goodbye to Nemtsov. Country leaders fail to show
Naina Yeltsina, the wife of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the board at RosNano, Sergei Kiriyenko, Chairman of RosAtom, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, billioner Mikhail Prokhorov, have come to bid their last farewell to Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was shot dead on Friday evening.
President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are not present at the ceremony. Garry Minch, Putin’s representative at the State Duma, has appeared instead.
The queue is over 700 metres long, Georgi Alburov, an anti-corruption activist, says on Twitter.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko posthumously awarded Boris Nemtsov with Order of Freedom on Monday.
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The politician was gunned down within several yards from the Kremlin. Unknown individual shot at him six times.
