Washington.
The US Secretary of State Anthony Blink, Said on Saturday that his country was “deeply concerned” by Russia’s growing intolerance of free speech, on the sixth anniversary of the assassination of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
Critic declared president Vladimir Putin, Nemtsov was shot dead on a Moscow bridge near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015.
“Remembering Nemtsov“We reaffirm our indestructible commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms,” Blinken said in a statement.
“We remain deeply concerned about the growing intolerance of the Russian government towards all forms of independent expression,” he stressed.
Thousands of Russians, along with Western diplomats, gathered in Moscow to commemorate the anniversary, laying flowers at a makeshift monument on the spot where Nemtsov was shot dead.
In 2017, a court declared a former security forces officer of Chechnya guilty of Nemtsov’s murder and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Four men were found guilty of involvement in the murder.
But the family of assassinated politician and his supporters insist that the authorities have not brought intellectual perpetrators to justice.
Blinken paid tribute to Nemtsov as a man who “dedicated his life to building a free and democratic“.
“Those who demonstrate in defense of their freedoms and democracy in Russia they continue to be attacked and killed, “he said, stressing that” the Russian people deserve something better. “