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Moscow officials July 14 rejected a proposal to put up a memorial for opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on the bridge where he was shot dead. Such a monument would be "commemorating not the memory of a man, but the murder itself. And do we need this?" said the head of the city government's memorial commission, Lev Lavrenov, Interfax reported.

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