Tens of thousands of people have marched through Moscow in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in the Russian capital on Friday night.
More than 70,000 people turned out in central Moscow on Sunday, many carrying Russian flags and slowly marching through an avenue alongside River Moskva, one of the organisers said, but police estimated the crowd at more than 16,000.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, who is reporting from Moscow, said security is "very tight" for the rally.
On Saturday, thousands of people laid flowers and lit candles on a bridge near the Kremlin where Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was shot to death.
National investigators who answer to President Vladimir Putin say they are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including the possibility that Nemtsov, who was 55, was killed by Muslim attackers or that the opposition killed him to blacken the president's name.
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