Mourners Line Moscow Streets for Nemtsov Funeral

Thousands of people lined the streets of Moscow on Tuesday, March 3, for the funeral of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition politician who was shot dead on Moscow’s Zamoskvoretskiy Bridge on February 27. Nemtsov’s body lay in state at Moscow’s Sakharov Center before later being brought to the city’s Troyekurovskoye cemetery for burial. This video is described as showing the funeral procession in Moscow.

Earlier on Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko took to social media to announce that he had bestowed the Ukrainian Order of Liberty upon Nemtsov, saying, “For us Ukrainians Boris will forever remain a patriot of Russia, and a friend of Ukraine.” Credit: Instagram/il_86110