Yabloko Chairman supported the initiative of Perm residents to rename Zemlyachka Square in honor of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 5.03.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Dmitry Makhonin, acting Governor of the Perm Territory, as well as the Dmitry Samoilov, Mayor of Perm, with a proposal to rename the square of Rosalia Zemlyachka to Boris Nemtsov Square.
Earlier, participants of the Perm rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which was held on February 29, made a similar proposal.
“Boris Nemtsov devoted his life to Russia and died trying to save our country from war. However, the memory of him has been immortalised only abroad – in Washington, Vilnius, Kiev and recently in Prague,” Nikolai Rybakov says. “We believe that this is unfair, and we invite the authorities of the six cities with which Nemtsov’s life was connected to correct this.”
Earlier Yabloko Chairman proposed to the authorities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl and Sochi to immortalise the name of Nemtsov in urban toponymy.
Politician and statesman Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow on February 27, 2015. Yabloko places political responsibility for the murder on President Vladimir Putin.
Posted: March 6th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.