A Moscow court has reportedly charged two people with the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, a report said.
According to the BBC, one of the men, Zaur Dadayev, had admitted his involvement in the shooting on a bridge near the Kremlin on February 27.
Dadayev and the other accused, Anzor Gubashev, are of Chechen origin, the report said.
Meanwhile, three other suspects were remanded in custody and a sixth suspect blew himself up in a standoff with the police in the Chechen capital of Grozny.
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