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MOSCOW, February 25 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. The participants of the March agreed by the Moscow authorities of the memory of Boris Nemtsov in the capital started the movement from Pushkin Square towards Strastnoy boulevard, the RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The demonstration came under the flags of Russia and under party flags, among the posters the traditional slogans of the liberal opposition, the participants of the action also carry posters with portraits and quotations from Nemtsov.

Leading the column are the leaders of democratic parties and organizations, including members of the PARNAS party with its leader Mikhail Kasyanov and the Solidarity movement with Ilya Yashin.

In the middle of the column, activists of the Yabloko party are moving, among them co-founder of the party, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky and party chairman Emilia Slabunova, co-chairman of the Public Support Staff of the candidate Vladimir Ryzhkov and the head of the Moscow branch of the party Sergei Mitrokhin.

The presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak also joined the column this year.

Earlier, Moscow authorities agreed to hold a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 25. As explained by RIA Novosti, the head of the regional department of regional security and anti-corruption Vladimir Chernikov, the march was agreed on the route from Pushkin Square on Strastnoy Boulevard and further to Sakharov Avenue. It is planned that about 30 thousand people will take part in the march.

After the end of the action scheduled for 16.00 Moscow time, the participants will curtail agitation and will go to the place of Nemtsov's assassination on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where the demonstrators plan to lay flowers.

Nemtsov occupied a number of high posts in the government of Russia in the 1990s, and in 2000 moved to the opposition. He was killed on February 27, 2015 around midnight (23.31 Moscow time) on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge in the center of the capital.

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