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Moscow to name area near British embassy in honor of Ukrainian separatists

2022-07-04T14:28:39.847Z


Moscow City Hall announced on Monday July 4 that it would name an area near the British Embassy in honor of the separatists...


Moscow City Hall announced on Monday (July 4th) that it will name an area near the UK embassy in honor of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine who are fighting with Russia against kyiv forces. supported by Westerners.

This area, hitherto unnamed and along one of the quays in central Moscow, not far from Novy Arbat Street, will be named after the self-proclaimed "

People's Republic of Lugansk

" (LNR), the town hall said. in a press release.

The municipality said that this choice was made after an online vote in which more than 100,000 people participated.

This decision comes the day after the announcement by Russia, which has been leading an offensive in Ukraine since February 24, of the takeover of the entire Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine.

The self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic"

Russia has been leading a military offensive against Ukraine since the end of February, a country which has received the support of Western capitals, including London, in the form of diplomatic support and arms deliveries.

At the end of June, the city of Moscow had already changed the official address of the United States embassy in the Russian capital to honor the pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed "

People's Republic of Donetsk

" (DNR), also located in the eastern Ukraine and not recognized by the international community, such as the “

LNR

”.

This name had been given to a hitherto anonymous crossroads, adjoining the embassy.

The names of the streets surrounding the diplomatic mission have not changed.

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The new official address of the American embassy was also chosen after an online vote organized by the Moscow authorities and in which nearly 280,000 people participated.

In the case of the British diplomatic mission, Moscow City Hall did not specify whether its official address would change.

This street name diplomacy is reminiscent of a similar measure in the United States: in 2018, a portion of the avenue running along the Russian Embassy in Washington was baptized "

Boris Nemtsov Plaza

", named after an opponent of Vladimir Putin assassinated in 2015 near the Kremlin.

Source: lefigaro

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