PRAGUE HONORS MURDERED PUTIN CRITIC: “The Russian opposition leader was shot in the back while walking with his Ukrainian girlfriend in central Moscow in 2015, two days before he was due to attend a large opposition rally in the Russian capital.”-@CNN
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POWERFUL GESTURE: “This will be the 4th Russian embassy to suddenly find itself based at or near an address commemorating Nemtsov, one of the most vocal critics of Putin.. It might sound like political trolling, but for Nemtsov's family, the renaming is a powerful gesture.”-@CNN
SYMBOLIC HELP: “It's very, very important to keep the name in the public,” Nemtsov's daughter Zhanna Nemtsova told @CNN. “Pro-democracy people, they have no representation in the Russian system of power, their ideas are not represented..these people want their voice to be heard."
