Marco Rubio: We will keep Boris Nemtsov's legacy alive (opinion)

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Marco Rubio: We will keep Boris Nemtsov's legacy alive (opinion)
CNN By Marco Rubio 32 mins ago
Boris Nemtsov posing for the camera © KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images

On February 27, 2015, prominent Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge in Moscow next to the Kremlin. On the third anniversary of his assassination, his life and legacy will be memorialized in our nation's capital.

Tuesday, the city of Washington, D.C., will formally designate the block in front of the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue as "Boris Nemtsov Plaza." This will be the first permanent tribute in the world to the slain Russian statesman who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom.

Last February, on the second anniversary of his murder, I made a commitment in the U.S. Senate to ensure that Nemtsov's legacy is never forgotten. Inspired by a law passed by Congress in the 1980s to name the block outside of the then-Soviet Embassy on 16th Street "Andrei Sakharov Plaza" in honor of the great Russian dissident, I introduced legislation to do the same for Boris Nemtsov on the street in front of the Russian Embassy.

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