By Katy Stallard, Moscow Correspondent
As the investigation into Boris Nemtsov's murder continues, friends and former colleagues have warned of the dangerous climate of hatred and fear they say Russia's opposition now faces.
Pussy Riot singer Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who spent more than a year in a prison camp after her band's protest against Vladimir Putin, told Sky News she gets threats every day, and that Mr Nemtsov had recently urged her to hire a bodyguard.
She blamed what she said was propaganda whipped up by Kremlin-controlled media, vilifying opposition leaders as 'national traitors' and 'fifth columnists' - a term used to denote agents provocateurs - citizens supposedly working against the Russian state.
"I think this aggressive mood is the first reason why Boris Nemtsov was murdered," she said.
"I'm not an investigator, and I can't say by who, but my version is that it is a strict consequence of all these propaganda words."
"They create an image of the enemy and it is the Ukrainian people, or people who support Ukrainian people, who are against this war - so this is the 'fifth column', this is us, this is liberals."
"Every day they listen to this, and they want to kill us. I have to say that we don't only have a war in Ukraine, but we really have war here."
Ilya Yashin, co-leader of Mr Nemtsov's opposition party, said political responsibility for the murder must lie with the Russian president.
"It was Vladimir Putin who introduced the term 'national traitors'," he explained.
"It was Vladimir Putin who was inciting and provoking hatred towards Boris Nemtsov and people who are like him. In the end Putin's hatred has materialised in those bullets, which took Boris' life."
He showed Sky News the material Mr Nemtsov had been working on at the time of his death, including the handwritten notes he had been using to communicate because he believed his offices were bugged by the security services.
He was gathering evidence he said would prove Russia's military involvement in Ukraine.
Yashin vowed to continue the work in Nemtsov's name and said he would not be intimidated into silence.
"Putin feels like he can do anything," he said. "He is sure that he can do absolutely anything without punishment. Putin must be stopped."
But voices like Ilya Yashin's are increasingly marginalised and denied access to the state-controlled TV channels, from which an estimated 90% of the population say they get their information.
Instead they feature 'patriots' like Yulia Berezikova - Russian mixed martial arts fighter, world champion kick-boxer, and one of the leaders of new pro-Kremlin movement 'Anti-Maidan'.
She says their movement is entirely independent of the government, and made up of ordinary citizens determined to stop those who would try to foment a Ukrainian-style colour revolution in Russia.
"The goal of the Anti-Maidan movement is to prevent colour revolutions," Berezikova explained.
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People stand in line at a memorial service before the funeral of leading Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov in Moscow
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