5 CONVICTED IN KILLING OF RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER

A Russian jury on Thursday convicted five men — a gunman and four purported accomplices — in the 2015 murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Zaur Dadayev, 34, was found guilty of fatally shooting Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, who was walking with a girlfriend on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin on the evening of Feb. 27, 2015.

Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya’s leader, and the four other defendants, all Chechens, were allegedly promised $250,000 to kill Nemtsov, who had urged in a radio interview that protesters turn out for a weekend rally targeting Russian intervention in Ukraine.