Former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was assassinated on a bridge in Moscow not far from the Kremlin. Authorities say seven or eight shots were fired at the opposition leader from a car. Nemtsov was going to lead a massive opposition rally set for tomorrow. Washington Post: Nemtsov, a physicist-turned-politician who was seen in the 1990s as a possible heir to President Boris Yeltsin, was one of the loudest voices condemning Russia’s sharp turn toward confrontation with the West in the past year. The killing sent immediate shock waves through Russia, where he became the highest-profile opposition leader to be slain in a nation where such figures are sometimes imprisoned or pushed to emigrate. There was no immediate information on who killed the 55-year-old politician as he walked across a central Moscow bridge shortly before midnight on an unusually warm winter’s night. Putin said it bore the marks of a contract killing intended to embarrass the Kremlin,...(Read Full Post)