Images of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, a decade after his assassination. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, fearlessly campaigned against President Vladimir Putin and his henchmen such as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. He was shot dead in the evening of February 27, 2015, as he walked home with his girlfriend, in a drive-by killing committed within view of the Kremlin walls. He was 55. SHORT PROFILE OF of Boris Nemtsov