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Gunman Who Killed Boris Nemtsov Receives 20-Year Prison Sentence

Dadayev and his accomplices were sentenced on Thursday—but Nemtsov’s legal team insists the case has yet to be closed.
Source: Ivan Sekretarev / AP

Zaur Dadayev, the gunman who fatally shot Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in February 2015, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Moscow military court on Thursday following his conviction in late June. Prosecutors originally asked for Dadayev, a former member of an elite security battalion in Chechnya, to receive life in

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