MOSCOW – Maybe it was Islamic extremists who killed Boris Nemtsov. Or someone offended by his love life. Or agents of a Western power that will stop at nothing to disfigure President Vladimir Putin’s ...

Emblematic of the beleaguered state of the opposition, a forlorn group of volunteers maintains a 24-hour vigil at the spot where a prominent democracy advocate was killed in 2015. By Andrew E. Kramer ...

Temirlan Eskerkhanov, convicted in the Boris Nemtsov murder case, has been released from prison after signing a contract with Russia's Defence Ministry to join the war against Ukraine. Nemtsov, ...

A Russian military court has sentenced five Chechen men found guilty in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to lengthy prison terms, Russian state media agency Tass reported Thursday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Eskerkhanov, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of opposition figure Nemtsov, sits inside a glass-walled ...

On a bridge next to the Kremlin on a drizzly Friday morning, a lone Russian police officer stood looking at the half-dozen bunches of flowers laying in memory of slain opposition figure Boris Nemtsov.

The assassination of Boris Nemtsov just steps away from the Kremlin was shocking but, sadly, not entirely surprising. Mr. Nemtsov, 55, a former deputy prime minister and member of the Duma, had become ...

Immense crowds turned out in Moscow on Sunday to march through the city in honor of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov — an opposition politician and frequent critic of Russian President ...

A portrait of Boris Nemtsov sits across the street from the Russian Embassy in D.C. in February 2018. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) In the days before Vladimir Putin’s presidency, when Russia ...

BRUSSELS – Assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and the Democratic Opposition in Venezuela are the three finalists for the European Union's top human rights ...

This was featured in live coverage. By Philip P. Pan Emblematic of the beleaguered state of the opposition, a forlorn group of volunteers maintains a 24-hour vigil at the spot where a prominent ...