The murder of Boris Nemtsov looks like a brutal provocation to stir the public in Russia and glow anti-Russian sentiment abroad, says the 1st Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee, 1st Vice-speaker of the state Duma Ivan Melnikov.

before the press center of the interior Ministry said Last news that 23: 40 GMT on the Big Moskvoretsky bridge in the centre of Moscow, four shots back of an unidentified was forcibly deprived of life man, based on the detected documents, this politician Boris Nemtsov.

"explain essentially currently required consequence. But from a political point of view, if we compare the selected time, ideological affiliation, popular names, it looks like the cruel and bloody provocation organized for the same purpose, which was shot down by Boeing (in Ukraine in 2014), " said Melnikov Last news .

"Namely, in order to capture the public within the country and to raise the intensity of anti-Russian hysteria outside. Neither that, nor another is not in the interests of political opponents of the late Nemtsov, " added the MP.

opposing political force had planned to go out on thousands March "Spring" in the Russian capital on 1 March.

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