The Moscow custom-made of leaving flower homages to honor the memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov on Feb.

27 each year appears to have actually spread out throughout Russia, according to reports from six other cities.

Makeshift flower memorials have actually appeared in Russias 5 most significant cities, Moscow, St.

Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kazan, on the 8th anniversary of Nemtsovs assassination, as well as in the smaller Siberian cities of Tomsk and Barnaul.

The opposition politician, who was a strong critic of Russian President Vladimir Putins authoritarianism and his 2014 addition of the Crimean peninsula, was eliminated in a drive-by shooting by worked with assassins as he was walking on a bridge near the Kremlin with his girlfriend on Feb.

27, 2015.

Diplomats consisting of the deputy head of the EUs Moscow delegation, Ivana Noršić, laid flowers at the Boris Nemtsov memorial on the website of his murder on Moscows Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge on Monday.

One person was apprehended while putting flowers at the exact same memorial on Monday, according to RusNews.After a questionable investigation into Nemtsovs assassination, five guys were jailed and charged with his murder, receiving long prison sentences in 2017.

A 6th suspect in the event, Beslan Shavanov, killed himself with explosives when police surrounded his apartment or condo in the Chechen capital Grozny.Nemtsovs allies, nevertheless, have actually constantly cast doubt on the examination that led to the arrest of Nemtsovs evident killers, arguing that the real masterminds behind the killing have actually never ever been given justice.A year prior to the murder, Nemtsov was followed by the same FSB officers who were later on alleged to have actually been associated with poisoning opposition politicians Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza, along with the writer Dmitry Bykov, according to an investigation performed by Bellingcat, The Insider and the BBC Russian Service.