Ten years after Nemtsov's killing:
Floral tributes from Norway and others trashed away by Moscow police
Norway's Ambassador Robert Kvile, along with many other diplomats, joined locals in Moscow when laying flowers at the site where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was murdered ten years ago.
"I will be honest. From the moment I learned that my father Boris Nemtsov had been murdered, I didn’t believe the case would be fully solved," writes Zhanna Nemtsova in her opinion piece in the Moscow Times on the day of the ten years anniversary of the brutal murder.
She was right. A decade later, justice for Nemtsov is still out of reach. The shooter serves jail-time in the city of Petrozavodsk, but the one that gave the order walks free.
Boris Nemtsov was a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. He opposed Russia's invasion of Eastern Ukraine that started in 2014 and the annexation of Crimea.
His assassination happened just before midnight on February 27, 2015. Nemtsov was shot several times from behind as he was walking across the Bolshoy Moskovoretsky Bridge, just next to the Kremlin walls and the Red Square.
Today, Norway's Ambassador to Moscow, Robert Kvile, together with Denmark's Chargé d'Affaires brought flowers to the bridge. So did diplomats from Estonia, Poland, the United States, Italy and several other countries.
Most were roses. Red and pink. There were also a few buckets with yellow and blue flowers, the colours of Ukraine.
The flowers, however, didn't stay long. Shortly after the diplomats had left, three men dressed like communal workers started to remove the flowers. A few portraits of the murdered Putin critic were trashed into the same garbage bags.
The communal workers acted on orders by the Moscow police, a live-stream video by RUS News showed.
By the end of the filming, the reporter, wearing a reflective vest clearly marked with "Press" was detained together with another who filmed with his mobile phone and a jacket-attached camera.
Today, little is left of political opposition inside Russia.
Nikolai Rybakov with the the Yabloko Party was among the few Muscovites who came out to remember and commemorate.
"For me, the most important thing was that he always spoke out against military methods of resolving conflicts, be it Chechen or Ukrainian. And it seems to me that this is the main thing that he will be remembered for," Rybakov wrote on his Facebook profil after laying flowers.
Rybakov underlined that he does not trust the investigation into the murder.
"One day, a real, objective and comprehensive investigation will be conducted in our country. And a memorial plaque will appear at the site of the tragedy," he noted.
Boris Nemtsov's grave is at the Troyekurovo Cemetery in Moscow. By late afternoon on Thursday, the flowers brought there were still in place.
