He is part of a small group of concerned citizens who call themselves the Nemtsov Bridge and who have established a 24-hour watch over the makeshift memorial.
They decided to do so after there were attempts shortly after Nemtsov's death to remove the memorial.
Since then it has been attacked a number of times by right-wing activists and also regularly removed by the municipal cleaning service.
Moscow's local authorities have refused to allow the installation of a plaque in the memory of Nemtsov and have rejected suggestions to rename the bridge to bear his name. [...]
Nemtsov's murder has been the latest in a string of political assassinations in Russia since the early 2000s. [...]
In June this year, Nemtsov's daughter Zhanna, said in an interview that he had a plan to run in the 2018 presidential elections.
Unlike opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is likely to be disqualified because of a past criminal conviction, Nemtsov wouldn't have had legal problems to stop him running and challenging Vladimir Putin's presidency.
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