Mikhail Gorbachev on Kommersant FM The murder of Boris Nemtsov was committed with the aim of destabilizing the situation in Russia. Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev stated this in an interview with Kommersant FM. He also emphasized that one should not rush to conclusions regarding those who ordered and organized the murder.

Dmitry Peskov on Kommersant FM The murder of Boris Nemtsov was immediately reported to President Vladimir Putin. The President instructed the heads of the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB to create an investigative group to investigate the murder of the politician and take control of the investigation. Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov answered questions from Kommersant FM hosts Konstantin Eggert and Anatoly Kuzichev.

The Russian government is discussing with oil companies the possibility of selling part of the oil and petroleum products supplied for export for rubles, but no mandatory volumes have been introduced for sale in rubles. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told TASS about this. “This is a matter for the companies, we are discussing this with the companies, but it is still the decision of the companies,” he said.

Politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed on the night of February 28, sought permission to grant political asylum in Lithuania, former Prime Minister of the Baltic republic Andrius Kubilius told AFP . “Nemtsov said that he feared arrest and imprisonment after the protests on Bolotnaya Square,” Mr. Kubilius said. “He (Boris Nemtsov) asked if Lithuania could provide him with political asylum.

His memory will be honored with a procession from Kitay-Gorod to the Kremlin Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the evening of Friday, February 27, near the Kremlin on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. He was 55 years old. Boris Nemtsov was shot from a passing car near the Kremlin on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on February 27 at about 11:40 p.m.

The authorities of St. Petersburg allowed the “March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov” to be held on Sunday, March 1, instead of the previously agreed opposition rally. Andrey Pivovarov, co-chairman of the regional branch of the RPR-Parnas party, reported this to TASS on February 28. “Smolny lifted the limit on the number of participants in the action on the Champ de Mars (the previously agreed number was 200 people).

A Colombian court on Friday found Maria del Pilar Hurtado, who headed the country's intelligence service in 2007-2008, guilty of spying on opposition politicians under the rule of President Alvaro Uribe, RIA Novosti reports. Along with Hurtado, the former head of the Colombian presidential administration, Bernardo Moreno, was also found guilty.

President Putin is ready to save on himself and his administration Vladimir Putin decided that cost optimization should not bypass the presidential administration (AP), where salaries could be reduced by 10%. The monthly average salary of AP civil servants, according to Rosstat, was 232 thousand rubles in 2014. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the salary cuts could also affect Vladimir Putin himself.

A reform management center is being created in the Ulyanovsk region A Reform Management Center will be created under the government of the Ulyanovsk region. This task of forming a strategic management system was set by the governor of the region, Sergei Morozov. The center, as a management company, will have to unite a number of scientific and expert teams working under the regional government in order to coordinate and plan reforms.

The research cluster, which is planned to be built in the area of ​​Lomonosov Moscow State University, will actually become an analogue of Silicon Valley, RIA Novosti reports on February 28, citing a statement by Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for urban planning policy and construction. “430 thousand square meters of research buildings will be built there; in fact, it will be our analogue of Silicon Valley,” said Mr. Khusnullin.

Co-chairman of the RPR-Parnas party Mikhail Kasyanov goes to the scene of the murder of his party colleague Boris Nemtsov, he has no versions about the motives for the murder. “No guesswork. I'm shocked by what happened, I'm going to the place. These bastards who committed this heinous crime will pay a heavy price, we will not forget it. Now I will figure out what is happening,” Mikhail Kasyanov told RIA Novosti.

Vladimir Putin signed a federal law extending free privatization of housing for a year, until March 1, 2016, RIA Novosti reported on February 28, citing the Kremlin press service. Current legislation provided for the completion of free privatization in Russia on March 1, 2015.

The car in which the criminals could have escaped after the murder of Boris Nemtsov was found in the center of Moscow, REN-TV reports. “The killers’ white car was found near the scene of the execution,” the channel’s website says. A law enforcement source confirmed this information to Interfax , adding that the car was found on the afternoon of February 28 in one of the alleys near Arbat Street. An investigative team arrived at the car and experts began examining the car.

Moscow expects Poland to provide clarification on acts of vandalism against World War II monuments and to take measures to suppress such actions in the future, RIA Novosti reported on February 28, citing comments from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Two servicemen of the Defense Army of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) died while repelling an attempt at sabotage and reconnaissance penetration by soldiers of the Azerbaijani army, the press service of the NKR Ministry of Defense told Interfax . According to the report, the incident occurred in the north-eastern direction of the line of contact between troops on February 28 in the afternoon.