by Maria Ogryzlo and Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Moscow
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"I don't understand why I'm still on Russian territory," she told Russia's independent TV Rain (Dozhd).
Police were holding her for safety reasons, she said. But her lawyer said the police "are acting correctly".
The killing took place on Friday night on Great Moskvoretsky Bridge, near the Kremlin wall.
Mr Nemtsov, 55, had just been dining at a restaurant with Ms Duritskaya.
They left together to walk to his flat, crossing the bridge, where a white car drew up and Mr Nemtsov was shot four times with a pistol at around 23:40 (20:40 GMT). Ms Duritskaya was not injured.
According to website Vesti.ru, Ms Duritskaya phoned the police and her mother immediately after Mr Nemtsov was shot and fell.
Her mother said Anna "was holding his hand and then heard the bangs".
"Boris slumped and fell. Anya was very frightened, she started calling the police and me immediately. She said on the phone: 'Mama, Boris has been killed! He's been shot in the back, he's fallen and now he's lying beside me," Anna's mother was quoted as saying.
In her Dozhd TV interview, via Skype, she said the police "took a statement from me, they checked all my things, checked my phone calls, they took all the information".
The Federal Security Service (FSB), in charge of internal security, said its security cameras did not record the shooting because they were pointed towards the Kremlin.
Opposition rally
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to honour Mr Nemtsov.
He had been due to lead an opposition march on Sunday but his killing turned the event into a mourning rally.
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, who was detained by police at the rally, is free to fly back to Ukraine from Moscow now, Vesti reports, quoting police.
Russian media reaction
The opposition march on Sunday was in the top news on Russian TV. Unusually, the main TV stations spoke highly of Boris Nemtsov, but were careful to omit his criticism of President Putin.
Dmitry Kiselev, seen as the Kremlin's chief spin doctor, described Mr Nemtsov as "charismatic" and "winningly charming". "He will be missed," he said on state-run Rossiya-1 TV.
The authoritative broadsheet Kommersant says the Kremlin suddenly changed tack on Mr Nemtsov from critical to respectful: "Such kind words were said about him which he did not hear from the authorities for a long time when he was alive."
Business daily Vedomosti speaks of a "premonition of civil war": "The regime that has gambled on hatred finds it difficult to refrain from escalating violence both abroad and at home... Russia will inevitably be different," says the paper's editorial.
"Judging by what the Western media say, attempts are being made to use this heinous crime to cast a shadow on Russia's reputation, Russia's leadership," analyst Konstantin Kostin tells the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The police said they had "no allegations against him", Tass news agency reported.
At the weekend police searched the offices of Mr Nemtsov in the northern city of Yaroslavl, Vesti reports.
They also questioned a local parliamentary aide of Mr Nemtsov, Mikhail Konev.
A witness statement from Anna Duritskaya, quoted by Vesti, described the gunman as wearing jeans and a sweater, about 1.7m (5ft 7in) tall, with an average build, and close-cropped dark hair.
Mr Nemtsov's allies have accused the Kremlin of involvement, but President Vladimir Putin condemned the murder as "vile" and vowed to find the killers.
Russia's Investigative Committee said it was looking into a number of possible motives for Mr Nemtsov's murder.
They include his opposition to the Ukraine conflict, Islamic extremism - Mr Nemtsov had Jewish ancestry although he had become Orthodox Christian - and an opposition "sacrifice" of its leader to destabilise the state and undermine the president.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin had noted "that this cruel murder has all the makings of a contract hit and is extremely provocative".
The investigators offered a reward of three million roubles ($48,000) for information leading to the killers.
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Russian police are still questioning
the Ukrainian girlfriend of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who
was with him when he was shot dead in Moscow.
Anna Duritskaya's lawyer told Russian media that she was anxious to go home temporarily to see her mother in Kiev. "I don't understand why I'm still on Russian territory," she told Russia's independent TV Rain (Dozhd).
Police were holding her for safety reasons, she said. But her lawyer said the police "are acting correctly".
The killing took place on Friday night on Great Moskvoretsky Bridge, near the Kremlin wall.
Mr Nemtsov, 55, had just been dining at a restaurant with Ms Duritskaya.
They left together to walk to his flat, crossing the bridge, where a white car drew up and Mr Nemtsov was shot four times with a pistol at around 23:40 (20:40 GMT). Ms Duritskaya was not injured.
According to website Vesti.ru, Ms Duritskaya phoned the police and her mother immediately after Mr Nemtsov was shot and fell.
Her mother said Anna "was holding his hand and then heard the bangs".
"Boris slumped and fell. Anya was very frightened, she started calling the police and me immediately. She said on the phone: 'Mama, Boris has been killed! He's been shot in the back, he's fallen and now he's lying beside me," Anna's mother was quoted as saying.
In her Dozhd TV interview, via Skype, she said the police "took a statement from me, they checked all my things, checked my phone calls, they took all the information".
The Federal Security Service (FSB), in charge of internal security, said its security cameras did not record the shooting because they were pointed towards the Kremlin.
Opposition rally
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to honour Mr Nemtsov.
He had been due to lead an opposition march on Sunday but his killing turned the event into a mourning rally.
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, who was detained by police at the rally, is free to fly back to Ukraine from Moscow now, Vesti reports, quoting police.
Russian media reaction
The opposition march on Sunday was in the top news on Russian TV. Unusually, the main TV stations spoke highly of Boris Nemtsov, but were careful to omit his criticism of President Putin.
Dmitry Kiselev, seen as the Kremlin's chief spin doctor, described Mr Nemtsov as "charismatic" and "winningly charming". "He will be missed," he said on state-run Rossiya-1 TV.
The authoritative broadsheet Kommersant says the Kremlin suddenly changed tack on Mr Nemtsov from critical to respectful: "Such kind words were said about him which he did not hear from the authorities for a long time when he was alive."
Business daily Vedomosti speaks of a "premonition of civil war": "The regime that has gambled on hatred finds it difficult to refrain from escalating violence both abroad and at home... Russia will inevitably be different," says the paper's editorial.
"Judging by what the Western media say, attempts are being made to use this heinous crime to cast a shadow on Russia's reputation, Russia's leadership," analyst Konstantin Kostin tells the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The police said they had "no allegations against him", Tass news agency reported.
At the weekend police searched the offices of Mr Nemtsov in the northern city of Yaroslavl, Vesti reports.
They also questioned a local parliamentary aide of Mr Nemtsov, Mikhail Konev.
A witness statement from Anna Duritskaya, quoted by Vesti, described the gunman as wearing jeans and a sweater, about 1.7m (5ft 7in) tall, with an average build, and close-cropped dark hair.
Mr Nemtsov's allies have accused the Kremlin of involvement, but President Vladimir Putin condemned the murder as "vile" and vowed to find the killers.
Russia's Investigative Committee said it was looking into a number of possible motives for Mr Nemtsov's murder.
They include his opposition to the Ukraine conflict, Islamic extremism - Mr Nemtsov had Jewish ancestry although he had become Orthodox Christian - and an opposition "sacrifice" of its leader to destabilise the state and undermine the president.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin had noted "that this cruel murder has all the makings of a contract hit and is extremely provocative".
The investigators offered a reward of three million roubles ($48,000) for information leading to the killers.
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