At the US Embassy in Moscow, RBC responded to the deputy initiative on conferring the nameless passage in the center of the capital next to the building of the American diplomatic mission, the name "North American dead end".

"Everyone can talk about dead ends. Being American diplomats, we prefer to concentrate on finding ways to move towards more constructive relations between the US and Russia, "said Maria Olson, the press attaché of the embassy.

Earlier, the chairman of the State Duma Committee for Physical Culture, Sport, Tourism and Youth Affairs, Mikhail Degtyarev, proposed to assign an unnamed intra-forest passage leading to the house of the People's Commissar, the name of the North American impasse, so that the US embassy got the address: North American deadlock, house 1. The deputy explained his initiative "obsessive" foreign policy of the United States. " With the corresponding idea, he spoke after the square in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington was named after the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.

In the capital government they promised to consider the issue of assigning the name to the next meeting of the working group of the city interdepartmental commission on the name in February.

The appearance of Nemtsov Square in Washington was legislated in February.

Politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the night of February 28, 2015 at the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. The perpetrator of the crime, Zaur Dadaev, who served in the Chechen battalion "Sever", was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the rest of the defendants received cases from 11 to 19 years.

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