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Memorial rally in Moscow for slain Russian opposition leader

A passionate orator with a rock star image and popular with women, Nemtsov was a key speaker at mass opposition rallies against Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012.

He wrote a series of reports critical of corruption and misspending under Putin.

In 2013, he said up to $30 billion of the estimated $50 billion assigned to the Olympic Games that Russia was to host in Sochi had gone missing.

The Kremlin has denied the claims.

Nemtsov did consider asylum in Lithuania in 2012, fearing persecution from the Kremlin, the Baltic state’s former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said Saturday.

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