“The Sakharov Center formed a queue of citizens who came to say goodbye to Nemtsov” – Kommersant

"The Sakharov Center formed a queue of citizens who came to say goodbye to Nemtsov" – Kommersant

In Moscow, in the Sakharov Center, held a farewell ceremony with Boris Nemtsov. He was killed on the night of February 28th. The correspondent of “Kommersant FM” said Vladimir Rasulov details leading radio news Oksana Barykina.

– What is happening at the Sakharov Center?

– Now Sakharov Center sufficiently impressive line formed of people who came on Tuesday to bid farewell to Boris Nemtsov. And it is interesting that in the building, which will host the farewell ceremony, now to begin a civil funeral, two entrances: one of them go top person in the country, well-known figures, while in the other trying to get journalists – a lot of reporters, but not all allowed, as the building is small enough and a little cramped in it. While I here, at the point where I am now, you can see a wall of the building until it is clear that it is happening in the room.

So, people just started to miss goodbye with Boris Nemtsov, and already form small place near the metal detectors on the inspection framework, because people did a little impromptu hallway outside the territory of the Sakharov Center , built a small twisting column, and so now I can see that there are people on the sidewalk, on turning on earth wall. Just arrived at the farewell ceremony, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft, and literally 20 minutes before the ceremony left the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Together with him from the ceremony went head of the government Sergei Prikhodko.

– Someone else from famous personalities planning to come?

– have already arrived here, Mikhail Kasyanov, along with it came Vladimir Milov. It is known that the government should come as Minister “Open Government” Michael Abizov, and literally on the latest information in the media, President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony to represent his representative in the State Duma Harry Minh, but so far it still was not here.

– Volodya, and some of the foreign guests, in addition to John Tefft, will be at the ceremony?

– There is information that the ceremony of farewell to Boris Nemtsov should come Riga Mayor Nil Ushakov, while no data, but it is possible that people are literally in a minute will drive. There are two entrances to the ceremony, but now from the second, coming and going quite well-known person, people will produce, because the room is small enough, and the place is not so much.

– You say: “A lot of people came,” and how about?

– Now about 300 people, if we consider only the territory near the Sakharov Center, on the sidewalk – about 100 people. And when I was still here, so many people with flowers came from the underground and from the Kursk railway station, so considering the fact that the ceremony will last from 10:00 to 14:00, people will very much possible that the bill will go to thousands.

– Some security measures taken, in addition to a framework of metal detectors?

– Yes, around the perimeter of the entire territory, which is adjacent to the Sakharov Center, surrounded by police, but the movement is not blocked by nearby highways. The only difficulty creating television stations that are on the waterfront near the Sakharov Center – there is a small tube, but the earth wall is not blocked, but the police are on duty around the perimeter of the area, and walk across the path goodbye does not work, only through a metal detector man can get to the ceremony of farewell .