Boris Nemtsov was murdered in the streets near the Kremlin.
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The Bulwark DailySep 29, 2026
Multiple independent reliable sources, including Reuters, BBC, NPR, and a US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe primary record, confirm that opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on February 27, 2015, on a street or bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow.
What was said
… He had, you know, already invaded Ukraine. You know, Russian journalists had faced increasing pressure at this point. An opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, was murdered in the streets near the Kremlin, so it's not like it was some sort of, you know, perfectly safe place, but reporters could report. Even Russian journalists were doing amazing investigations at that point, and foreign journalists were treated as kind of like quasi diplomats. …
The Bulwark Daily · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Reuters reports that Nemtsov was shot dead as he walked across a bridge next to the Kremlin, and that the area is under heavy surveillance.[1]
Supports. The BBC reports Nemtsov was shot dead just yards from the Kremlin in 2015, and a US commission record describes his murder on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge directly in front of the Kremlin.[2][3]
Supports. NPR reports Nemtsov was shot dead on a street in central Moscow, and CBS reports he was killed near the Kremlin on Vasilievsky Spusk.[4][5]
Context. Sources differ on the exact location (bridge versus street) and timing (late Friday night versus early Saturday), but all place the killing in central Moscow near the Kremlin, so these differences do not affect the core claim.[4][5][6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 1, 2 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Insight - Nemtsov's friends ask: where were the police when he was ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Boris Nemtsov: 1959-2015csce.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 4Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead : The Two-Waynpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 5Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscowcbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 6Assassination of Boris Nemtsov - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 715 hours after the murder What we know about the investigation into ...meduza.io · not rated · cited for: context
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