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Boris Nemtsov murder: Girlfriend allowed to return to Ukraine
The Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is flying home after being questioned by police in Moscow.
"Anna Durytska has just left for Kiev," Ukrainian Foreign Minister spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said.
She was with Mr Nemtsov when he was shot dead in the Russian capital on Friday night.
Ms Durytska's lawyer earlier said she was anxious to go home temporarily to see her mother in Kiev.
But her lawyer also said that the police were "acting correctly".
Mr Perebyinis later said Ms Durytska was flying back to Ukraine after "Ukrainian diplomats in Moscow provided all the necessary assistance to our citizen".
The killing took place on Friday night on Great Moskvoretsky Bridge, near the Kremlin wall.
Mr Nemtsov, 55, had just been dining at a restaurant with Ms Durytska.
They left together to walk to his flat, crossing the bridge, where a car drew up and Mr Nemtsov was shot four times with a pistol at around 23:40 (20:40 GMT). Ms Durytska was not injured.
According to website Vesti.ru, Ms Durytska phoned the police and her mother immediately after Mr Nemtsov was shot and fell.
Her mother said Anna "was holding his hand and then heard the bangs".
"Boris slumped and fell. Anya was very frightened, she started calling the police and me immediately. She said on the phone: 'Mama, Boris has been killed! He's been shot in the back, he's fallen and now he's lying beside me," Anna's mother was quoted as saying.
In her Dozhd TV interview, via Skype, she said the police "took a statement from me, they checked all my things, checked my phone calls, they took all the information".
The Federal Protective Service (FSO), in charge of presidential security, said its surveillance cameras did not record the shooting because they were pointed towards the Kremlin.
Opposition rally
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to honour Mr Nemtsov.
He had been due to lead an opposition march on Sunday but his killing turned the event into a mourning rally.
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, who was detained by police at the rally, has already returned to Ukraine.
Russian media reaction
The opposition march on Sunday was in the top news on Russian TV. Unusually, the main TV stations spoke highly of Boris Nemtsov, but were careful to omit his criticism of President Putin.
Dmitry Kiselev, seen as the Kremlin's chief spin doctor, described Mr Nemtsov as "charismatic" and "winningly charming". "He will be missed," he said on state-run Rossiya-1 TV.
The authoritative broadsheet Kommersant says the Kremlin suddenly changed tack on Mr Nemtsov from critical to respectful: "Such kind words were said about him which he did not hear from the authorities for a long time when he was alive."
Business daily Vedomosti speaks of a "premonition of civil war": "The regime that has gambled on hatred finds it difficult to refrain from escalating violence both abroad and at home... Russia will inevitably be different," says the paper's editorial.
"Judging by what the Western media say, attempts are being made to use this heinous crime to cast a shadow on Russia's reputation, Russia's leadership," analyst Konstantin Kostin tells the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
