A public ceremony of paying last respects to the politician Boris Nemtsov, killed in central Moscow on February 28, is taking place at Moscow’s Andrei Sakharov Human Rights Center.
According to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s spokesperson, Natalia Timakova, the government is represented by Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko. US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft is also attending the visitation.
A delegation of the Yaroslavl region government and parliament has also arrived to pay their last respects to Nemtsov.
After attending the visitation services, the head of the Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation, Sergei Kiriyenko, said he hoped "the law enforcement agencies will quickly manage to establish, at minimum, the perpetrators and contractors of that political murder."
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has arrived to pay his last respects. Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov, a spokesman for Prime Minister Natalia Timakova, the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shoikin and the head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Mikhail Seslavinsky, the head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the government department of public speaking training Marina Volkova are also in the hall.
The funeral will take place at Moscow’s Troyekurovskoye cemetery.
