MOSCOW, April 19/ Radio Sputnik. Changing the legal address of the Russian Embassy in Prague has nothing to do with the renaming of the square Under Chestnut trees, which houses a diplomatic mission, in the area named Boris Nemtsov.
this diplomats announced on the official page in Facebook, reports “gazety”.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic took a decision to change the legal address. The procedure coincided with the time when the area in which is located the Embassy, was renamed in honor of slain Russian politician Boris Nemtsov.
To date, the Embassy will be used as the official address of the building on the street Korunovacni, which is 400 metres from the main building of the Russian representation.
the Diplomats also expressed the opinion that the Czech authorities are unlikely to renaming streets Korunovacni because this toponym is more than 100 years. They stressed that the change of address was of a technical character.
Former state Duma Deputy, and at the time of the murder of the Deputy of the Yaroslavl regional Duma Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on February 27, 2015 in Central Moscow. In the case of murder were sentenced five people, who got from 11 to 19 years of imprisonment. However, the investigation has not named the customer of a crime. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the murder of custom and provocative policy.
In February this year, the city Council of Prague, the square was renamed in honor Nemtsov, the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death. Official Moscow said the decision of renaming the sovereign right of the authorities of the Czech capital.
on the Eve of the Sputnik radio reported that Russia’s Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov responded to a tweet from the U.S. Embassy about the alleged destruction of St. Stephen’s Cathedral by Soviet troops during the liberation of Vienna in April 1945.
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