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In the waning years of the Cold War, Congress infuriated Moscow in 1984 by voting to change the name of a stretch of 16th Street NW outside the then-Soviet Embassy to “Andrei Sakharov Plaza ...
The bill will symbolically rename the stretch of Wisconsin Avenue in front of the embassy to 1 Boris Nemtsov Plaza, adding that name to the street sign. Nemtsov was shot and killed on a bridge ...
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a ...
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials renamed a stretch of land near the old Soviet Embassy Andrei Sakharov Plaza in honor of the famed Soviet dissident physicist. More recently ...
The Senate bill specifies that the address of the compound containing Russia's embassy, consulate, and ambassador’s residence would be changed to 1 Boris Nemtsov Plaza. Russian officials in the ...
A one-block section of Wisconsin Avenue directly in front of the embassy was officially renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza on Tuesday, in what amounts to a D.C.-sponsored effort to troll the Russian ...
In a letter to the state of Minnesota, the Embassy Suites in downtown St. Paul said it will shut down around Jan. 9, 2019. Has booming Bloomington hotel market been overbuilt? JR Hospitality ...