Battle to honor slain Putin critic Nemtsov unfolds beneath Kremlin towers

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - As the Kremlin clock inched toward midnight and the ice-bound river beneath their feet melted, a group of Russians silently stood on the bridge where Boris Nemtsov, the Putin critic and opposition leader, was killed nearly a year ago. "This is about remembering," Boris Kazadayev, 73, part of the small crowd, told Reuters. "Nemtsov Bridge" - activists' nickname for the spot where the Putin opponent was shot dead on Feb. 27 last year - has become the scene of a