Over a dozen Western ambassadors including U.S. envoy Lynne Tracy paid homage to Boris Nemtsov on Tuesday, nine years after the Russian politician was murdered near the Kremlin.

Nemtsov was one of President Vladimir Putin's loudest critics until he was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge on Feb. 27, 2015.

"Nemtsov's legacy continues to inspire

A lawyer who helped the mother of late opposition figure Alexei Navalny recover his body from prison authorities was briefly detained, independent media reported Tuesday.

Vasily Dubkov had accompanied Lyudmila Navalnaya to Salekhard, the capital of Russia’s Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, following Navalny’s death in a nearby prison colony on Feb.

Russia’s state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring hasadded exiled opposition lawmaker Gennady Gudkov to its list of “terrorists and extremists.”

Gudkov, a former KGB colonel, served in Russia’s lower-house State Duma from 2001 until hisouster in 2012 over what an ethics committee said was unlawful entrepreneurship.

At the time, the 67-year-old