Washington Renames Street Outside Russian Embassy After Nemtsov

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Washington Renames Street Outside Russian Embassy After Nemtsov
RFE/RL

WASHINGTON -- The city council of Washington, D.C., has renamed the street where Russia's embassy is located to honor the memory of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in a move that Moscow has complained about.

Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., the chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation For Freedom, said on February 6 that an official ceremony to rename the block of Wisconsin Avenue as Boris Nemtsov Plaza is scheduled for February 27, the third anniversary of Nemtsov's assassination.

Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on a bridge in Moscow just meters from the Kremlin walls.

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