Moscow theater hostage crisis

Investigators of the assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including a contract killing, the head of the Russian Security Service Alexander Bortnikov has said.

U.S. ambassador: Russia made big mistake

KOPAONIK -- U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby said on Tuesday that "the whole world needed the United States and Russia to have a good relationship."

At the same time, the EU needed to have a relationship with Russia as well, he said.

KOPAONIK - United States Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby said Tuesday that the whole world needed the United States and Russia to have a good relationship and that the EU needed to have a relationship with Russia as well.

Thousands of Russians have gathered at the Sakharov Center in Moscow to attend the memorial service of former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down by an unknown assailant near the Kremlin wall on Friday night.

The memorial service in honor of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov started at 10 am Moscow time Tuesday.

Nemtsov was shot on February 27 in front of his girlfriend in the Russian capital, raising suspicions on ordered murder and the participation of the current Putin cabinet.

US State Secretary John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Geneva on Monday, as the UN Human Rights Office released its latest report on the death toll in Ukraine.

According to the report, the number of people killed in eastern Ukraine since April 2014 surpassed the 6000 mark, despite the successive ceasefire agreements.

Cabinet "lacks support, condemned to dream alone"

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic wrote in an opinion piece published by the Belgrade-based daily Blic that "it seems the main problem is a lack of will to go to the future."

The prime minister noted that he "sometimes thinks Serbia's problems are neither in its past, nor in its present," and added:

Protests held in wake of murder of Russian politician

NEW YORK -- Dozens of demonstrators protested in New York near the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN over the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.

Socking video of the moment Boris Nemtsov is being murdered sees the light of publicity.

The video captures the cruel murder of leading Russian opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov who was shot dead in Moscow.

Following the death of leading Russian opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov who was shot dead in Moscow, thousands of people