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Boris Nemtsov was deputy prime minister in the 1990s and a potential successor to Boris Yeltsin. Later he was the major opponent of Putin until, in 2015, he was shot dead within sight of the Kremlin.
A BBC investigation has found evidence that in the months before the killing, Nemtsov was shadowed by a government agent linked to a secret assassination squad. Using leaked train and flight reservation data, the investigation shows that Nemtsov was followed on at least 13 journeys across Russia. The agent's name is Valery Sukharev and the evidence suggests that he served with the FSB.
Sukharev has also been linked to the attempted poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020. Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union and banned under international law. He was treated in Germany and recovered. When he returned voluntarily to Russia, he was jailed.
The BBC asked the Russian government and the FSB to comment on the evidence that Mr Nemtsov was being shadowed by an agent linked to an assassination squad. The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: "All of this has nothing to do with the Russian government. It looks like another fabrication." The FSB said nothing.
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