A witness to the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, a citizen of Ukraine Anna Duricka flew to Kiev, said the speaker of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry Yevhen perebyinis.

"Anna Duricka only flew to Kiev. The Ukrainian staff of the foreign Ministry in the capital of Russia has provided our citizen all the necessary assistance in returning home, " he wrote.


Nemtsov, in the past occupied a number of high posts in the government of the Russian Federation, and then joining the opposition, in the night of Saturday, was killed in the centre of Russia's capital. The investigation is considering several versions of lawlessness, including murder. Duricka was very close To Nemtsov at the time of the murder.


Boris Nemtsov was born on 9 October 1959 in Sochi. In September 1991 he was appointed representative of the President of Russia in Nizhny Novgorod region, in 1995, defeated in the elections of Nizhny Novgorod head. In 1997 he became the 1st Vice-Prime Minister, From March to December at the same time he was Minister of fuel and energy, was the Chairman of the governmental Commission for operational problems. In March 1998, dismissed from the Cabinet of Ministers Viktor Chernomyrdin. Since April 1998 he held the post of Vice-Premier in the government of Sergei Kiriyenko, but already filed August message about the dismissal. Read more in

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