FILE PHOTO: A participant carries a placard, which reads 'I'm not afraid', during a rally in memory of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on the first anniversary of his murder in Moscow, Russia February 27, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - For more than 700 days and nights, in all weathers, a small group of hardcore anti-Kremlin activists has guarded a makeshift memorial to murdered Putin critic Boris Nemtsov on a bridge opposite Moscow's Red Square.
The temporary shrine, made up of flowers, candles and portraits, is meant as a precursor for a permanent memorial plaque at the site where Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was shot dead in February 2015 in a case that has yet to be solved.
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