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Boris Nemtsov’s mother, Ekaterina, was with him as he was gunned down. Her voice can be heard on the video as she recounts what she saw.

The man who killed the Russian opposition leader and an arch-enemy of Vladimir Putin is under formal investigation for murder, a police official says.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that it had taken a step to normalize relations with the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The United States suspended a security cooperation plan with Russia for its involvement in fighting terrorism and for “violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” after a senior Putin aide was killed by unidentified gunmen in eastern Ukraine last month.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that it had given the green light to the renewal of the Belarus-U.S. free trade agreement, after a meeting of the presidents of the two nations.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russia and Belarus will extend their $1 billion trade deal in January, though it still excludes sugar.

“The goal of this is to open up [a trade corridor] to Eastern Europe,” Putin aide Oleg Deripaska told the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti, adding that the extension had been in the works for many months.

The United States and its allies said Tuesday that Moscow must cease its airstrikes in Syria and stop military cooperation with the Assad regime if it wants to make any major progress in its effort to negotiate a lasting peace in the war-torn country.

The Obama administration announced