Two Russian opposition parties agreed on April 17 to run on a joint platform in 2016 parliamentary elections, aiming to make a first step in uniting fractious Kremlin adversaries after the killing of party leader Boris Nemtsov.
Reuters: Two Russian opposition parties unite after Nemtsov killing
Russian opposition activists and associates of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Ksenia Sobchak (R) and Ilya Yashin (L), react early on Feb. 28, 2015 on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge, where the opposition leader was shot dead, near Saint-Basil's Cathedral.
