page_title: 2015 in Europe
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 in Europe / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Марш памяти Бориса Немцова в Москве.Русский: Moscow march for Boris Nemtsov.
context_page_description: This is a list of 1300 events that occurred in Europe.
context_section_description: 12 February – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany reach a ceasefire deal after 17 hours of talks in Minsk, Belarus, on the War in Donbass.
  14 February – Two people are killed in shootings at a free-speech seminar and at a synagogue service in Copenhagen.
  18 February – Conservative Prokopis Pavlopoulos is elected President of Greece.
  22 February – Two people are killed and 11 injured in an explosion at a peace rally in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
  24 February – A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod, killing eight people.
  27 February – Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow. The murder of former deputy PM is condemned by world leaders and sparks protests in Russia.
caption: March in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, 1 March
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