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		</div><p>Thousands of Russians have marched through Moscow to mark two years since opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down outside the Kremlin.</p>
<p>Mr Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin.<br />
His February 27 2015 death, in what appeared to be a contract killing, sparked an outpouring of anger and fear in Russia&#8217;s beleaguered opposition movement.</p>
<p>The memorial protest was the largest opposition gathering since a similar march for Mr Nemtsov in 2016.<br />
Organisers put the number of participants at just over 15,000. The police, known for underestimating attendance at political rallies, said about 5,000 people showed up.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very important that after two years people continue to come out and show their solidarity with the ideas for which Boris Nemtsov fought for and gave his life,&#8221; opposition activist Ilya Yashin, who was Mr Nemtsov&#8217;s friend and colleague, told the Interfax news agency.</p>
<p>Demonstrators carried Russian flags, banners of opposition political parties and placards with quotes from Mr Nemtsov, including &#8220;If there&#8217;s Putin, there&#8217;s no Russia&#8221;, and &#8220;Our only chance left is the street.&#8221;<br />
Some carried cardboard Russian flags with bullet holes in them.</p>
<p>&#8220;For us, Nemtsov represents free-thinking Russia and the democratic values for which we strive: free elections and no corruption,&#8221; participant Yekaterina Getgarts said.</p>
<p>Five men went on trial for Mr Nemtsov&#8217;s murder in a Moscow military court last year, but no verdicts have been returned in the ongoing case.</p>
<p>Investigators allege that the man who shot Mr Nemtsov was Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in an elite Chechen police unit.</p>
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<p>But Mr Nemtsov&#8217;s family and friends say it was a political hit with a trail that leads to senior officials in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya who have not been charged or even questioned.</p>
<p>The Moscow rally largely passed without incident, but an unknown assailant threw green dye in the face of opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov. Police made several arrests.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the hysteria of the government. They do not know what to do. The government is afraid,&#8221; opposition activist Gennady Gudkov, a former deputy in the lower house of parliament, said of the attack on Mr Kasyanov.</p>
<p>While large crowds are rare at opposition demonstrations in Mr Putin&#8217;s Russia, the attendance at Sunday&#8217;s rally was significantly lower than a year ago, when organisers estimated almost 25,000 people joined a Nemtsov memorial march.</p>
<p>Russia&#8217;s opposition has been fragmented in recent years by pressure from the Kremlin, the flight abroad of leading activists and political infighting.</p>
<p>After the march, thousands of people laid flowers on the bridge where Mr Nemtsov was shot in the back several times while walking home with his girlfriend.</p>
<p>Similar demonstrations took place on Sunday in other Russian cities, including St Petersburg and Mr Nemtsov&#8217;s hometown of Nizhny Novgorod.</p>
<p>Several thousand people participated in St Petersburg, but the turnout was low elsewhere.</p>
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