Overnight to February 28 Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in downtown Moscow. According to preliminary data, an unknown assailant made a few shots at Nemtsov when he was walking along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Nemtsov was a co-chair of the RPR-Parnas party. He had held a number of government positions in the 1990s. TASS recalls the developments in life and career of Russian opposition and state figure Boris Nemtsov in this gallery.