Boris Nemtsov shot dead last month in a brazen attack in central Moscow.
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow last month, according to Russia's most senior security official.
The two suspects were identified as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev by Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service, on state television.
Both men are from the impoverished Caucuses region in southern Russia, Bortnikov said.
Neither man has been charged, but the intelligence chief said the investigation was continuing.
Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister turned outspoken critic of Kremlin, was shot dead on the evening of Feb. 27 on a bridge near Red Square.
His murder shocked Russians, with tens of thousands marching last weekend in memory of the slain politician.
Nemtsov had been scheduled to lead the march, which had been organized to protest against Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the killing, with President Vladimir Putin promising to personally oversee the investigation.
Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a source close to the investigation as saying that the pair were arrested after police discovered the getaway vehicle the killers used, according to the BBC.
Telephone records and evidence collected inside the car has reportedly been the focus of investigations, while surveillance footage was also said to provide "sufficiently clear" images of the suspects.
On Facebook, opposition activist Ilya Yashin called on the authorities to make all the evidence public.
"Often in such high-profile cases it's often only about detaining the perpetrators, thus enabling the authorities to get a nice picture on TV," he wrote. "But if those who ordered the murder are able to escape responsibility, the practice of political murders will definitely go on."
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