Washington renames Russian embassy street after slain opposition MP - BBC News
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Washington DC has renamed the street the Russian embassy sits on after a murdered Russian opposition politician.
The city council voted to rename the street outside Russia’s embassy complex after Boris Nemtsov, who was shot outside the Kremlin in 2015.
A statement from the council said the decision to honour the “slain democracy activist” passed unanimously.
Russian politicians criticised the move, with one MP labelling it a “dirty trick”.
The decision was specifically targeted at “the portion of Wisconsin Avenue in front of the Russian Embassy”, according to the Washington council’s statement.
Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted the leader of the nationalist LDPR party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as saying US authorities “specifically want to play dirty tricks in front of the Russian Embassy”.
#toponymie (oui, oui !) #russie #états-unis #mots #noms et vraiment marrant si ce n’était pas aussi affligeant. #guerre_des_noms aussi et comme entre le Japon et la Corée, tant que la « guerre » reste cantonée à une confrontation « intellectuelle », ça va.