The US and EU countries have renamed the streets where Russian embassies are located: now they glorify Ukraine and Zelensky

The street in front of the Russian embassy in Washington on March 6 received an unofficial new name: President Zelensky Street, reports INSIDER.

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It was a tribute to Ukraine's leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is hailed around the world as a hero in fending off an unprovoked Russian attack.

A street sign was erected in front of the embassy in silent protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale attack on Ukraine, said the person behind the action.

“This is a symbolic gesture. “It’s really just meant to show what we and many Americans think about what’s happening in Ukraine,” political activist Claude Taylor said in a March 6 interview. “The depth and scope of the war crimes and tragedy that befell Ukraine because of one person, because of Putin, is obvious.”

At Russian Embassy in DC… now located on President Zelensky Way. pic.twitter.com/zmShDvEqQS

— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) March 6, 2022

Taylor founded the Mad Dog PAC against Trump in 2017. He said that the group had already done some anti-advertising in the past, and that the symbolic renaming of the street in front of the embassy was a small action they could take to protest the war in Ukraine.

The sign looks very professional, with a large cement base and a sturdy post. Taylor said they installed the sign around 14:30 p.m. March 6. It is unknown how long she will stay there.

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The Mad Dog PAC has installed similar signs in the past, named after Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and columnist who was killed by Saudi authorities in 2018. Shortly thereafter, Taylor's group erected a "Khashoggi's Way" sign in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy in DC, as well as other locations.

As for the Zelensky sign, Taylor said he had the base and pillar of the sign left over from that project, and he just had to order the real sign, attach it, and leave it in front of the embassy.

It's also not the first time Taylor's group has targeted Russia. In 2019, Mad Dog PAC placed a billboard in Palm Beach that read "Republican Party" with an O formed by a hammer and sickle, a common symbol in Russia that was on the flag of the Soviet Union. The group said the billboard, located near Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, was meant to highlight the GOP's "corrupt and treacherous collaboration with Putin and his Russian mafia."

Taylor said he had no idea if Zelenskiy's sign would remain for a while or if embassy officials would remove it. But he said that attention was drawn to the sign, and he achieved his goal. He continued, "It's just a peaceful, non-violent, silent form of protest."

Embassy of the Russian Federation on the street Heroes of Ukraine in Vilnius

In protest against Russia's war in Ukraine, the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, wants to name one of the streets in honor of Ukrainian heroes, reports DW.

The previously unnamed street leading to the Russian embassy in Vilnius will be called the “Street of Heroes of Ukraine,” so that the Russian embassy will have a new address, as announced on Thursday, March 3, by the mayor of the city, Remigijus Šimašius. According to him, the goal is to bring to the attention of Russian head of state Vladimir Putin that “Ukrainians really exist, and they are real heroes.”

Šimašius called the head of the Kremlin a “Nazi.” “A sign with the name of the street on the Russian embassy building will remind Putin that The Hague is waiting for him,” the mayor of the Lithuanian capital said in an interview.

According to Šimašius, the Vilnius City Council is expected to make a decision on changing the name of the street next week. “The business card of every employee of the Russian embassy will now be dedicated to Ukrainian heroes,” he wrote on Facebook. And, as the mayor added on Twitter, he doesn't think the post office "will necessarily deliver letters if the address is incorrect."

So far, it appears that the Russian embassy is located on Latviyskaya Street. But if the small nameless street leading directly to it is given a name, the address of the Russian diplomatic mission will change.

Lithuania often attracts attention with symbolic protests against Russia. So, in 2018, the Vilnius authorities renamed the square near the Russian embassy in honor of the murdered Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.

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Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have long advocated a tougher stance towards Russia in the EU and NATO. And since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began a week ago, fears of a possible Russian attack in the Baltic countries have intensified even more.

The Riga City Council also decided to rename the street where the Russian embassy in Latvia is located to Independence Street of Ukraine.

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