The US ambassador to Russia took part in a protest to commemorate Boris Nemstov.
The image has been altered: John Tefft is standing exactly the same way in a photo published on 22 April 2015 in the Moscow Times. bit.ly/2mGMdiz, The fake image spread on several Russian social networks and the French blog Russie politics.
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