A few hours of the funeral of Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, several Western officials complain of not being able to go to the ceremony held in Moscow this morning. A ceremony will be followed by an Orthodox religious service. European ambassadors and other foreign officials, the Lithuanian diplomacy or the mayor of Riga will be present. The President of the Polish Senate and a Latvian MEP claim not to have received approval from the Russian authorities.
Boris Nemtsov was . A fervent opponent of Vladimir Putin, he was 55 years old.
