Poroshenko’s order: “Spread through the media that we humiliated Putin”
The Kiev City Council decided to name a square located near the Russian Embassy in Ukraine after the Russian liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in 2015.
The corresponding decision was made during the next plenary meeting of the Kyiv City Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The square is located at the intersection of Surikov Street and Vozdukhoflotsky Avenue.
69 out of 87 deputies of the Kiev City Council voted for Nemtsov Square. None of the people's representatives took the floor to speak out against it.
The vote of the capital's deputies is a propaganda step by the authorities, Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko commented on the decision.
“The authorities set the task to disperse the topic in the media - like, “they humiliated Putin.” Such actions are carried out for certain people, the target audience, who have been given another “victory,” the expert told PolitNavigator.
According to him, the campaign is aimed at “particularly stubborn groups.”
“In order to somehow keep them submissive, so that they do not switch their hysterical passionarity to the fight against tariffs, illegal developments or something else - and carry out such “victories,” said the political scientist.
Well-known journalist Andrei Babitsky believes that the appearance of Nemtsov Square in Kyiv is a pathetic attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to annoy Russia by copying the steps of their patrons from the United States.
“This kind of demarche is a repetition of a similar decision by the United States, which named the square next to the Russian embassy after him. This is just a cheap copy-paste, because from the entire arsenal of measures with which Kyiv is trying to annoy Moscow, it is very difficult to choose an action that even remotely resembles a real, serious demarche that would cause damage to Russia. Did you name it? Well, they called it, no consequences or problems. Their streets are named after Bandera and Shukhevych, they renamed half the country, and God bless them. Someday this will all end,” the journalist noted in a conversation with PolitNavigator.
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